On 2006-04-13 12:44:00, Anonymous wrote:
""Are kids threatened if they do not open up? Are these workshops based on Lifespring? Are kids deprived of sleep or food during these seminars? How many consecutive hours do these last? When are they allowed breaks? How are they different than WWASP seminars? Lots of kids speak highly of the WWASP seminars although they are highly clinically inappropiate. Just a version of brainwashing"
The Carlbrook seminars are not anything like this. There is no threatening and they are not based on Lifespring. The kids eat and sleep and have breaks. They can open up- or not- as they choose. In fact, most of them learn to trust their peers and they DO open up, which is a huge step.
DJ-you are the one who is ignorant. And, yes, I will bash you whenever I please, since you delight in bashing anyone who dares to disagree with you. You have a very limited textbook understanding of SOME aspects of emotional growth programs- oh, plus your brief time at HLA. By the way, most parents who choose Carlbrook for their kids wouldn't even consider HLA. They aren't the same breed of animal. You have NO knowledge of how the Carlbrook program operates or how incredibly gifted the therapists and staff are. You have refused to listen to the fact that the founders of Carlbrook went to Cascade and started Carlbrook because they WANTED A DIFFERENT MODEL.
I can understand Little Lukie and Anonypis behaving the way they do, but you are a 40+ year old man who has the emotional IQ of a 12 year old. You use big words and vomit your anger and hate all over the parents and other program supporters on this board. When someone turns your tactics around on you, you piss and moan about it. I am sorry your entire self-esteem revolves around this forum, but you really are a joke."
Wow. This shows a lot about you.
Someone with no education, no experience and a complete fasilure as a parent shouldn't be lecturing.
You've already admitted that you KNOW NOTHING about the workshops (never saw one, can't describe one, don't even know the basics), nothing about LGA and nothing about programs in general. I was a practicing clinician for ten years. You are not my intellectual peer - not by a long shot, so don't inflate your worth.
You may fancy yourself special, but you're a cookie-cutter version of the other ignorant dogmatists that post here, nothing more, nothing less. No facts, no evidence, just "because I said so." Sorry, but only other ignoramuses will buy that line.
For years people just like you were saying the same things about HLA - "It's the best," "They wanted to start something better," "They're qualified," etc. Well, all of that is demonstrably false. It takes time for the facts to come out. Rest be assured that they will. We'll see who's right then. You'll be eating crow, just like the nice folks at HLA.
You know absolutely nothing about me, not even my age, but yet you project like you know something. You don't. Save your breath.
I noticed once again though, that as soon as you are forced to admit your ignorance you spew venom. And you talk to my esteem?
Get a grip. Argue your point and let the facts talk because your opinion is worth exactly zero.
You're a "different breed"? Yes, an arrogant, ignorant blue-blooded snob. I agree completely.
Have a great day!
