Don't weedle around on this and use your "story" like it's the only one. You seem to be blind to everything else except the experience you claim to have had. Anyone else's hellish time spent in a program is dismissed by you.
I think you have it backwards, I have spoken to, listened and agreed with many kids that have gone thru the program especially from ASR. You are wrong again? What seems to be denied here on Fornits is that many kids are helped by these programs. I admit that some kids don?t do well but it is you and many here that continuously keep your eyes shut to the fact that kids benefit.
Yeh, like your's, right? And like Aspen gave you access to all their attendees. I've seen you talk to a few kids here and claim that they are lying or grossly exaggerating, with no proof to base your comment on.
Who are you really?
What kind of 'parent' would, two years after the fact, be defending a program that admittedly didn't work for their child?
Exactly how do you profit from promoting Aspen programs?
Are you one of their Regional Marketing people?
Back to your personal 'success' story. You've claimed to not care that your daughter smoked pot after the program, that you were most concerned about her education. So you stick her in a lock-down where she is forced to get some quasi-education, then she bolts post-program and doesn't attend college, and doesn't talk to you for two years.
How do you consider any of that to be remotely 'successful' based on what you've stated that you wanted for her?
What YOU wanted for her, clearly is not what she wanted.
Teens will arrive at autonomy, despite their parents best attempts to interrupt it.
They have an internal drive toward autonomy which frequently puts them in conflict with a controlling parent. In addition to the normal confusion, there is a sense of betrayal. They can betray themselves by denying their own internal drives to live and learn, or they are forced with betraying their control freak parents.
The more controlling you are, the further you push him/her away. That's when you see excessive rebellion... aka ODD, abuse of substances, and all the other labels and problems program parents fear.
You, and the industry at large, have failed to show HOW the industry works. What most at Fornits say is that YES, a child can appear to have change. The program can definitely alter the kids behavior. But, HOW? And do the means justify the end. The more that's uncovered about the industry, the answer is a resoundingly, NO.
