By popular demand, I'm going back over this whole thread to try and find the alleged felony. Please indulge my obsessive need to occasionally respond to stale old shit. I can't help myslef sometimes. Is there a program for that too? (don't answer.... please.... just don't!)
I'll give you an example, but there is no way you are going to appreciate the effectiveness of this without knowing our son, his history and his temperament more than you do.
You underestimate us.
He was given an assignment where everytime he regarded himself as an "exception" he was to announce it. In other words, if they were told to go wash off their cups, and he thought to himself, "I don't have to do that right now", he had to announce that he was an exception. It was humorous, but very effective in teaching him how often he saw himself as an exception to everything.
Ok, so why would a bunch of teenagers need that level of micromanagement? You tell a toddler to clean a cup because they need that level of direction. But a teenager? Only if they've already left a mess and it's in your way. Otherwise, their housekeeping and hygiene habits are their own business and any healthy minded kid would naturally take exception that that kind of incursion into their own personal space.
Am I the only one who sees this? In an instance where the alleged adults in charge are treating young adults like toddlers, a healthy minded kid
is an exception, even if everyone else in sight are either buying into or playing along with the fiction. How dare he think for himself before automatically following every directive, eh?
Karen, this is the nut of the issue right here. The troubled parent industry is all about preventing your kids from growing up and out from under your neurotic need for total control. The next program in line is still offering the same basic service and, quite frankly, you come off looking like a dumb whore ever believing that the next pimp is soooo much better than the last one.
Now, I'm still looking for Gookie's alleged felony assault.
