Enjoy Your Time Together Having fun is an important element of a
young person’s healthy development. Although you can play an
important role in your mentee’s life, you won’t go very far
together if you don’t enjoy each other’s company. Some
suggestions for having fun with your mentee include the
following: - Do things your mentee enjoys. Include your mentee
in making decisions about what you’ll do together. You can
create a list with your mentee of activities that you like to
do, write the activities on slips of paper, and place them in a
jar. At the end of one meeting, you or your mentee can take a
piece of paper from the jar to determine what you’ll do the next
time you get together. - Try new things together. You have an
opportunity to expose your mentee to new experiences and ideas.
Take your mentee to places in the community that he has never
been. Try new foods together. Help your mentee to explore his
interests. - Have a sense of humor. Acknowledging your
shortcomings to your mentee and laughing at you