2SER Breakfast

Tragically, Australia has had to watch many of our elite athletes across all sports struggle with adjusting to new lives after their careers come to an end. In a bid to stop this, Olympic Swimmer Ian Thorpe proposed a solution over the weekend to use the experience and expertise of Australian sporting veterans including Cathy Freeman, Tim Cahill, Pat Rafter and Lleyton Hewitt, in a new mentoring program. Nic chatted with Andrew Martin, Professor of Educational Psychology at UNSW, about how important the right mentoring is during childhood and adolescence.