What I noticed right away on the ST board is how invested those parents are in controlling the behavior of their teenage children by keeping them under lock and key for months, even years.
When a newbie posts looking for information, the same handful of program parents respond by first, validating the concerns of the new parent (presumably to gain their trust and confidence)and second, explaining how their program-of-choice is working to change the no-gratitude attitude of their teens and/or bring harmony to a once chaotic household held hostage by a demanding, spoiled, out-of-control (read non-compliant) child.
What's interesting is the pathology among these parents, how their own emotional instability, obsessive expectations and demands, chemical dependency, etc. disabled their ability to effectively parent.
It is the parents who are truly in need of help, but of course, the programs all know this, and as such, nearly all of them now have some kind of parental training program embedded in the features and components of their child's program.
The real tragedy is teens are being retrained to think and act in accordance to parent manuals created by people who are expert manipulators.
