Mentoring and Nurturing for Young Folk With Questions

[andrewlittle]

There are young people amongst us with serious questions about who and what they are, especially in relation to people they love and respect telling them they are vile and evil and hell-bound.

There are people on these boards who would love to mentor and nurture these young people, and to help them craft their own answers to these questions and comments. It is something they know takes patience and, sometimes, a thick skin.

There are those on these boards who have heard too much, throughout their lives, of the personal attacks on their own person and re-suffer when they see the same comments again and again.

How do we cater effectively to all these people? That is a question that was asked in PM by someone who loves just about all of the people in each of the categories.

Is this a thread that we can direct young people towards to ask their questions and repeat the comments they are hearing, but one to avoid for those who have had their fill of hearing them?

Thoughts?