Because seeking out a forum for kids who were tortured by cults to post about the wonderful experience your kid had in a wilderness program is not something people do.
We don’t know if she did that or what forums she has posted on. If you asked her I bet she wouldn’t even know where to find a forum which talks about kids being tortured in cults, let alone wanting to post there. I know, as a parent, I would have no interest at all.
Becasue the "improved her self esteem by leaps and bounds to accomplish things shes never dreamed of doing" statement is ludicrous. Being abducted, and held prisoner, even going volentarily to camp, doesn't create such a reaction.
Doesn’t sound like you know very much about Therapeutic schools or Wilderness programs because what the mother is describing is pretty much the norm.
I became a model and was featured in national magazines. Even that didn't "raise my self esteem by leaps and bounds to accomplish things she never dreamed of doing." Unless this girl is high on cocaine, people do not have about faces that intense where their personailty changes completely for the better.
Being a model and on magazines does not raise your self esteem (working with these people you must know this). Actors, actresses, comediennes and models typically have low self esteem problems, especially models because models don’t feel they have accomplished anything personally, everything they have to show is genetically given to them so they don’t feel a sense of accomplishment. If a person was born with six fingers on one hand he may become famous and be featured on Jay Leno, but I don’t think this would gain him self esteem.
If you have ever seen a young kid start a fire from scratch for the first time and cook his/her own meal or help another hiker to conserve water you might know what the mother is talking about. These kids go thru a tremendous turnaround.
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Yeah, being in magazines won't improve your self esteem, but learning how to start a fire from scratch will. Makes sense :roll:
Ok, how about this. I never had friends. Finally made one. Still my self esteem didn't rise by leaps and bounds this didn't "raised my self esteem by leaps and bounds to accomplish things she never dreamed of doing"
I was seriously injured and unsure if I could walk again, I underwent a long bout of pt, went back to normal, basically. This didn't "raised my self esteem by leaps and bounds to accomplish things she never dreamed of doing" Yet, I was doing hard work to improve myself
Your personality can't be remade for the better in 60 days at a camp. It can't even be remade by finally having a friend after 13 years of isolation. A personality change of that nature is a ludicrous concept.
However, kids are told if they don’t renounce their former selves and show that they have lots of self esteem and have been saved, more or less, by the wilderness program, then they’ll go to a private prison where they will continue “treatmentâ€
