Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > Brat Camp
Typical Day at Sagewalk
Anonymous:
Stepmom, this is not a board to find support or rational discussion of programs. The kids on this board are anti-program and think all parents who send their kids to a program are horrible people. I suggest you go to strugglingteens.com for support and better information.
These are bitter, angry young people who don't have a clue how hard it is to live with an angry, violent teenager.
Anonymous:
Thank you ... I get so aggrivated at the "blame the parents" group
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-08-08 13:37:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Stepmom, this is not a board to find support or rational discussion of programs. The kids on this board are anti-program and think all parents who send their kids to a program are horrible people. I suggest you go to strugglingteens.com for support and better information.
These are bitter, angry young people who don't have a clue how hard it is to live with an angry, violent teenager."
--- End quote ---
Strugglingteens.com is a hategroup of parents who enjoy knowing their children are suffering, and who pay a great deal of money to make sure their kids are suffering. They don't say that out loud, of course. They call it "help" and "therapy" and "emotional growth" and all those other nice buzzwords the troubled parent industry has developed.
Yes, people who send their kids to programs are horrible people. Why are you paying some program to raise your child for you? Why are you dumping their kid at the slightest sign of trouble? Why aren't you sticking by your child, as a parent should? Why are you placing him in a dangerous, possibly abusive environment-- and paying for it?
Be a parent. Raise your child. Don't pay someone else to do that for you.
Nihilanthic:
--- Quote ---On 2005-08-08 13:37:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Stepmom, this is not a board to find support or rational discussion of programs. The kids on this board are anti-program and think all parents who send their kids to a program are horrible people. I suggest you go to strugglingteens.com for support and better information.
These are bitter, angry young people who don't have a clue how hard it is to live with an angry, violent teenager."
--- End quote ---
You have no idea what its like to live with an angry, violent set of parents who dont give a damn about you and would rather get you out of their hair than do anything else.
You also have no idea what its like to live with reactionary, fearful idiots who bought into some program, Dr. Phil, or whatever, and you dont agree with the bullshit forced upon you just becuase youre "the child" and they are "the parents".
You also have no idea what its like to be abused, beg for help, and have them side with a program and not listen to you. You have no idea what its like to be betrayed and trapped and forced into suffering and told that youre wrong, theyre right, and the only way to be free again is to act like theyre right and change yourself to fit their mold.
You dont know this becuase you cant dare criticise yourself. You cant think of anyone being at fault except the child. You cant deal with the fact that parents and programs fuck up, because they are and are ran by people, respectively.
BTW, just so you know, there are plenty of parents with teenagers on this forum. Like, say, Antigen, whose not only a survivor of Straight from the 80s, but also the parent of 3 lovely daugthers, one of whom is older than me. She went through the terrible teens with her oldest, but guess what? Theyre BOTH fine, arent in debt, and didnt involve coersive bullshit to get through it. It took some PARENTING and just letting the kid grow up.
But hey, engage in hyperbole and pidgeonhole everything, and everyone, into set roles. Programs have all the answers, the parent is the victim,
the child is wrong, and the people who say anything otherwise are bitter liars!
Youre not impressing anyone except others just like yourself. People who arent indoctrinated into this nonsense can see for themselves. You simply can't handle the truth unless it matches up with your damn mindset and worldview. You cant handle anything except what I said above - the program is right, you are the victim, the kid is wrong, and theyre necessary for children with problems, despite the fact that in a nation of over 270 million americans, only ~~15K children are in a program at any given time and do JUST FINE WITHOUT IT
The legislature is to society as a physician is to the patient. If a physician ignored side effects of medications like today's legislators ignore the side effects of their legislation, the physician would be accused of malpractice. I accuse today's legislators (with rare exception) of legislative malpractice. Many of the ills that are so obvious in our society are a direct result of previous legislation. Their solution? More laws!
-- John A. Bennett, DO
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Anonymous:
Stepmom- don't listen to that crap. I'm sure you abandoned your stepson at the slightest hint of trouble!! Strugglingteens is a group of mature parents who agonized over every step of the placement process and who love their kids very much. There are many success stories and lots of experience, strength and hope.
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