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Anonymous:
Thank you Antigen for the clarification.  Very well put.  I for one appreciate the forum you have made available for parents to read, learn and share.  If it weren't for this forum my relationship with my child may have taken a whole different turn after his return home.

I now understand his "quirky" behavior and try to react very differently.  This is a very valuable sorce of information and contact for those who need answers.  It is very easy to weed through the "crap" as some put it.  I do believe it is making a difference in those who are home and those still there.

I continue to be perplexed by the involvement on this sight by those at The Whitmore.  It can not be healthy and productive for the children there to heal and grow.  If they are only allowed a 10 minute call on Sunday with their parents who might engage in negative talk, why in the world would they be allowed to read and participate on this site?  Wouldn't this create more doubt and confusion than any 10 minute call to a parent who loves and supports them.  Help me here?

The kids home are trying to move on and do the right thing. They are healing through conversations with each other.  I have witnessed conversations of apologies for the physical and emotional pain done to each other.  They are carrying a tremendous amount of guilt and need to release it.

However, it is difficult to do this when they recieve emails and threating phone calls from The Whitmore-some from cheryl herself.  Again I have to ask, why are the kids there allowed and encouraged to be involved in this negative activity.  I know Cheryl was present at the time, my son was asked to speak with her...he declined.

I keep asking myself,if all these are untrue and unfounded attacks on The Whitmore, why the threats to so many people.  My son has not posted on this sight since he has been home.  He has not done anything to warrant a threat. He has NOT spoken to any other parents to "spread lies."

I am the one who posted.  If Cheryl or The Whitmore feels there is a terrible misunderstanding and "we" should talk it out, why not contact me?  Curiously, how did they figure out who my son was if his name was never mentioned nor mine??  There has to be some validity to the story or they could not have matched someone to it?!?  Make sense?

Thank you again Antigen for the service you provide here.  Please know you are making a difference.  You have affected many lives, more than you will probably ever know.  The information and contacts here are invaluable.  Keep up the good work!  For those of you who disagree, it is kind of like the TV... if you don't like it, change the channel!

Antigen:
Thanks, Anon. That's good to hear.


--- Quote --- Curiously, how did they figure out who my son was if his name was never mentioned nor mine?? There has to be some validity to the story or they could not have matched someone to it?!? Make sense?

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A farmer slaughtered and hung a couple of pigs one spring day and then went about the rest of his day. When he returned to take them down a couple of hours later, one of them had been cut down. He never said a word about it to anyone, but just continued about his business asif nothing had happened.

Several weeks later while chatting w/ a neighbor over the fencepost, the neighbor asks him "So, did you ever figure out who stole that pig?"

"Yup. Just now."

 :rofl:

Vain are the thousand creeds that move men's hearts, unutterably vain, worthless as wither'd weeds.
--Emily Bronte
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Joyce Harris:
Regarding any threatening phone calls, emails etc to ex-students or parents from anyone connected to Whitmore:

I would take the threatening phone calls very seriously, and would report them to the Nephi Police and my local Police Departments immediately.

When we returned home with our 12 year old daughter, we began receiving phone calls from students at the Whitmore, and email an email from Cheryl Sudweeks,. which we immediately turned over to our local police and to the Nephi Police.

We also received a scary telephone call from a Ben McQuivey which we turned over to our local police and the Nephi police departments.  The only way the McQuiveys could have our personal telephone information was through the Whitmore Academy.

The Nephi Police Department informed us that they went to the Whitmore Academy with our complaint, and the phone, email harrassment did stop.

We are no longer being harrassed, but do we feel totally safe? Not really.

Anonymous:
To the parent: I wrote the post suggesting that "perhaps an ADULT was posting using kids names." I did mean an Adult at the WHITMORE.   I never ever meant PARENTS of any kids.

I read Antigen's remarks about this, so it probably is the kids writing themselves.

I just think that we parents just have a difficult time accepting that kids can really think this way....talk this way...and write this way.

But then: we parents who placed our children at the Whitmore have difficulty coming to terms with the idea that our children were so controlled, and became so filled with ideas that are so foreign to our concepts of "family" and "love."

I am accepting that these postings so full of rage, name-calling, and threats are actually being written by teen-agers. That is very scary to me.

We parents sent our kids to Whitmore, however misguided we were, for help.  Not to have them become so full of rage that they turn on each other like this.

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