This methodology is based on cognitive thinking as a basis for correcting the lack of problem solving skills in society which is the reason or cause to most of society’s problems.

Parent As Cognitive Mentor is a training course designed to teach the application of proper elements, pressure and motivation to a child in order to promote confidence in knowledge, emotion and awareness of your child of the stability and other conditions that each member must contribute to the family as a whole. Cognitive Mentoring is an intentional proactive and interactive activity.

In any intervention, it is necessary that the mentor have greater understanding than the individual being mentored.  The parent must be trained in the art of transmitting their greater knowledge to their young children, guiding their learning in a proper manner, help develop their thinking patterns and capacity, and to stop doing those things that most parents do that hinder their child's capacity for learning throughout life.  Most parents make the same mistakes over and over again.  In addition, parents of "smart" kids could still have smarter kids by avoiding the same pitfalls!  And one must remember the many instances of Harvard grads who commit atrocious acts we see on the news (like that MD that carved his name into a patients abdomen - really bright, huh?).  The parent as cognitive mentor method teaches you how to instill the right structure to enhance learning and foster right actions throughout life!

This knowledge gives a parent the advantage and power over any and all situations that may arise and that indeed do. This knowledge, as it is in cognitive therapy itself, is the defense in any and all situations that the parent may encounter. 

The proper elements are:
1. Knowledge
2. Reasoning
3. Understanding
4. Training

The KRUT & REKRUT (pronounced recruit) system is the basis of cognitive transference and is the core technology of this process and therapy.

You will notice that the first three elements are mental - having to do with the intellect. The fourth element is action or activity oriented. The reason for this is simple. Just because a person may know, understand and reason what or how to react in a given situation, does not ensure that he or she actually knows the HOW of solving the situation – the action of what to do and /or have the sufficient skill in performing the action of solving the issue. This is where the parent as cognitive mentor trains the child in practical actions and activity that reinforces problem solving.

Unfortunately, the majority of children neither get the first three nor the last one - what they do get is often wrong and insufficient causing them to become adults with the problems we are trying to help them solve. 

Mentoring is the process of guiding an individual through thought and practice. Cognitive mentoring is the addition of knowledge and wisdom to the mix of mentoring practices in order to forge a broad establishment of right thinking and its praxis - right doing. Mentoring is the establishment of proper action by the mentor and the imitation of it by the child. 

For mentoring to be effective there must be a structure within which the mentoring process is focused - where there is a set pattern of actions, instructions, law, examples, and purpose. And this purpose must make sense and be transmittable to the child. By way of socialization, an individual can absorb the norms of a group and perform to one degree or another according to the internal structure of a group - much the same as adapting to one’s environment. 

The training course covers both individualized child mentoring and family mentoring - where group family socialization and norming environments must be organized and designed to reinforce the cognitive mentoring by the applying parent.

The group socialization process helps the child - individually and within his / her own locus - to adjust and apply the cognitive benefit received from their parent's mentoring to real life situations, therefore, his/her own repertoire of schemata. Thus we have an individual who is adjusting properly: correcting previous erroneous schemata with newly acquired ones (cognitively mentored).