It's not out of character for anyone on this board, CCM Girl.
Normal on Fornits is not normal anywhere else. Most of the regulars on this forum have no idea how rare program parents truly are, or the fact that many of them need to be carefully incubated in a poisonous environment to be what they are. Similarly, the concept of complimenting the young people in your life is approached as an entirely novel concept that no one has heard of before.
Let me inject a dose of outside reality: It's not. Outside reality is the world of track coaches and after-school football; the reality of summer camp (and I can't say the words 'summer camp' on this board without triggering something, can I?) and vacations to Disney World; kids worrying about college. it's also the reality of kids trying pot, kids using Ritalin to cram for that next test, getting drunk every now and then, kids dropping out of school, kids doing dangerous stunts without benefit of protective equipment. It's the reality of wild parties, cops, and, for the really bad/stupid ones, juvenile hall. (The bad/smart ones.. nah, you figure it out.)
The concept of sending your kids off to some pseudo-treatment facility that clearly doesn't follow any of the tenets of mental health simply does not exist among sane people, and when informed of such a concept, said sane people recoil in horror.
This is why I suggest sending parents to Fornits; the insanity stands out on its own, and they're given a good glimpse into what they're REALLY in for after they're done talking to the slick ed-con, stopping the indoctrination process.
