Fornits
Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => The Troubled Teen Industry => Topic started by: Anonymous on October 03, 2006, 08:48:21 PM
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Hello Fornits. I am struggling with a ery tough decision and I need to make it in 72 hours. My son is urrently in the middle of his program. He was always close with his grandmother. She is dying. I told my son and he begged me to let come home until she is buried.I asked the program for their thoughts and the director said if I were to take him out on leave, the program would have no choice but to dismiss him. He reccemended I just send him a prayer card. What would you all do?
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Okay Troll, I'll bite.
Are you going allow the Director of a Program to make your decisions for you? You are the parent. You decide. The program loses your tuition if you fall for his empty threat. Tell him the boy will be spending some time with his grandmother and return to the program when you, the parent in charge, are ready to return him.
Hopefully, that day (the return) will never come.
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Ok this should be a no brainer...if the school place thinks that he would lose THAT much ground for just a few weeks being gone....then pull him out. The school will always be there (maybe), Grandma wont. Just my opinion.
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Kid is trying to manipulate you. Do not let him, stop him. Don't send him a card, send him a letter stating you believe in his program 100%, and what staff say, goes. If your son believes in any way that you might take him home, he will not fully submit to his program. Make your intentions clear with action, you are not paying hard earned money for your son to enjoy a vacation.
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I'd give this one a 2. Not even remotely plausible.
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2 is too much, especially after so many poor ones. 0.8 ... tops
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Hey, troll? It doesn't get better with more attempts. It just gets worse. Post something plausible or buzz off.
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Kid is trying to manipulate you. Do not let him, stop him. Don't send him a card, send him a letter stating you believe in his program 100%, and what staff say, goes. If your son believes in any way that you might take him home, he will not fully submit to his program. Make your intentions clear with action, you are not paying hard earned money for your son to enjoy a vacation.
ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR FREAKING MIND? This whole 'manipulation' crap is just their way of getting you to keep shelling out several thousand a month to torture a kid and leave absolutely NO measurable results that wouldn't have occurred anyway with a little maturity. You'd be so cruel as to not let a kid see his dying grandmother just so Litchfield (or whoever) can keep him from looking out a window to develope 'character'? Newsflash-everyone manipulates everyone, to some extent. Any type of request, bargain or even an order is manipulation. You're the parent, let the kid come home to see her. You might even like where he is now. You really think Litchfield and company will turn down the tuition if you DO decide to return him? I don't think so.
Survivor of SCL
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Yeah, the smart kids are onto something. That's why they were stealing cars, doing drugs, blowing off their educations. Can't understand why we would want to redirect their efforts.
Once a family has exhausted therapy (these kids, by their own admission, can lie to and manipulate ANY therapist they are seeing once or twice a week), has no ability to impose consequences- what then, oh wise ones???
Adults who manipulate to get what they want are called manipulative, just as kids are. Manipulation is an abuse of trust. I'm sure all of you on this board would be such wonderful parents (not that many of you have actually had that experience) that you would NEVER be manipulated by your child and would NEVER believe his or her lies. Sorry the rest of us are such sub-par parents.
And, my brilliant Deborah, are you contending that these troubled teens are manipulative solely because their parents have taught them to be so?
You really have a high opinion of parents, don't you?
You are such an angry bitch.
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Don't fall for that KareninDallas posting. It is someone trolling just to get you to bite, which you did. There is no KareninDallas on this forum, just RobertBruce who registered the name.
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I have not been identified, but I feel sorry for the person you think I am.
What is the big deal about identifying people, anyway. It's not like YOU are brave enough to reveal your personal information. Who cares? It's a message forum. Do you really think you are all that important to the world?
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Of course we know who you are -- you stupid cunt! Why should I sign in when you only will sign in for one out of a hundred of your posts? We know you post here all day long for years, Karen. You are such a pathetic loser, go watch your son's porn or something! :rofl:
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I am very important to the world. I'm sorry you feel you need to impersonate a woman to feel important. You tell ME what's the big deal about being identified since you go to great lengths to check IP addresses and expose people and reveal all their personal information. Gee, why would anyone be reluctant to post their identity on here? Such considerate and mature folks.
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I am very important to the world. I'm sorry you feel I want you to impersonate a woman to feel important. You tell ME what's the big deal about being identified since you go to great lengths to check IP addresses and expose people and reveal all their personal information. Gee, why would anyone be reluctant to post their identity on here? Such considerate and mature folks.
Oh boy, that last post was a great example of insightfulness and biting humor combined. :roll:
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I LOVE the canned responses. It's so funny because NO MATTER WHAT anyone posts, Karen has already made a statement that can be reposted. That know-it-all bitch has provided a troll script that people can just quote from under any circumstance. It is HILARIOUS.
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This actually happened to me, kind of. I was at cedu rs when my grandfather passed away. Before telling me, my parents contacted the school and basically told them that I am coming home for the funeral. They weren't happy about it. Sent an older student with me (who, if I remember correctly, was actually younger in age than me).
This is important (if real). You should bring your son home for the time remaining. The time will be valuable to him and perhaps help him straighten out. Unfortunately, no matter what I did to try to convince my parents to keep me home, they sent me back. I actually strongly suggest you not only bring your son home for the time remaining, but keep him home. Don't send him back.
My two cents.
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First of all, with the Karen deal, aren't we getting a little off track (with the fucking bitch Karen), since the original posting was about a kid and his dying Grandmother.
If it were me, I would fly to where the kid was, take him back to see his Grandmother, and if she passed away with in 2-5 days, keep the kid there, if he loved his grandmother he would want to be there for the funeral or celebration of life, and then take him or send him back to the program he was in. A program that doesn't understand family, is not a program at all.
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Hi, same guest here who posted the last, what does everyone else think??