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High School Mentor Research Paper

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I have never been a camp counselor, but in high school I was an elementary school mentor and senior mentor. As a mentor I learned patients and that everything does not always go as planned. When I would seem to run in obstacles that I could not handle, I would pray and stick to what I was taught as a mentor. I learned that it is important to set rules for kids and follow through with the rules. Kids will take a mentor or counselor more serious when the rules that were put in place are followed through during the session. In college I am now a mentor for kids club and working with that is a little more difficult. The kids are more unprivileged, so had to think of other ways to get through to them. That brings me to say that each child is different,

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