Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > The Troubled Teen Industry
Concern for a "student"
Truth Searcher:
"What you're saying is that you'll only talk with program sycophants"
Hellllooooo..... would I be here if my only interest was talking with sycophants. I think not.
I am trying to have meaningful discourse. But, it is a little difficult when one is met by hostility and judgment. How can we have meaningful discourse when all I am able to do is talk from a defensive position. Good grief.... I'm not the enemy, except perhaps in your own mind.
"What is your purpose of posting here?"
Well if you refer to my original post, that would answer your questions. No hidden agenda.
Antigen:
What hostility and judgement? Someone asked you a perfectly reasonable question and you went all paranoid. I suspect there's a good reason why you don't want to talk about the program where you placed your daughter. I expect that it's probably one with which we're all very well familiar.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
--Thomas Carlyle
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Truth Searcher:
Nonconformistlaw~
Thank you for sharing that with me. That is why I am here. Do I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that I did the right thing? No. I probably will never know that. Anymore than knowing that weaning her at 12 months instead of 24 months was the "right" thing.
I only know that I did not know what else to do.
If it was the wrong decision, I am open to her telling me that. I am even open to telling parents to never send a child to a program, if I come to believe that it is never beneficial and never a resort (even a last one). Since we placed our daughter people are coming out of the woodwork to talk to us about our decision. And I feel some responsibility to them and their children before sharing our experience. I would never want to steer someone toward a placement if it is not in the best interest of that family.
I honestly came to this forum to learn about other people's experiences. But, God, I'm about ready to pack my bags, as I can't seem to get some others to understand my true desire to see the other side of the same coin.
I guess the label "parent" has labeled me as a pariah.
Antigen:
--- Quote ---On 2005-08-13 09:51:00, Truth Searcher wrote:
I guess the label "parent" has labeled me as a pariah.
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No, that's not it. There are quite a lot of parents who post to these forums regularly. It's got to be something else.
Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people
Thomas Jefferson.
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Truth Searcher:
"What hostility and judgment?" OMG Antigen... you can't be serious. This must certainly be a rhetorical question.
How about ....
"you're going to discredit what she went through because you still want to play victim and have a pity party and celebrate how 'strong' you are?" for starters.
If you don't feel that this has been a hostile post, and the judgment has been doled out generously then I question your sensitivity toward such matters.
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