Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform > World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools (WWASPS)
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jellybean:
I am not fixed on a placement for my kid, but what I am fixed on is doing the absolute best job I can do in searching for the right resources and options. Here's the thing, when you are a parent in these shoes and things are getting progressivley worse and each incident doesn't ellicit a response from my son that even closely relates to admitting what he is doing is dangerous, but rather keeps saying how everyone else who has gotten caught up in serious drug addictions is stupid except him and minimizes what he's done or blames others for exposing him to what he's done it's scary. You think: I only have him for a little while longer, what if he doesn't get it before he can do whatever he wants (turns 18), what if I don't do anything more than what I'm doing now, what if it doesn't work, what if I send him somewhere and it makes it worse, what if he ends up dead and I did nothing or he ends up dead because I did something and it was the wrong thing to do. You see regardless of what I do, I need to know that I was aware of my options and made the best decision I could. Either way I could be making the wrong one. I have to live with that the rest of my life......it's tough....put your self in my shoes. I could get a million different suggestions and still make the wrong choice and then who do I blame? The person who gave it to me? At the end of the day I am responsible for this situation until he is age.
The wretchedness of religion is at once an expression and a protest against real wretchedness. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people.
--Karl Marx, German economist and political philosopher
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Anonymous:
Jelly Bean - I'm curious as to why you would be posting on a program "hate" site? If you are truly looking for the best option for your family, wouldn't it be better to identify first what you are looking for - what issues are you currently looking for help with and then ask for references from each of the schools you are researching. Ask those parents (and you can ask to talk to their teen if they're now home) to give you both the good and not so good in their experience. I know that most parents and the teens will tell you what they did or didn't like about their school of choice.
Asking here is going to give you too much fear in seeking help - like everyone on here says, they think keeping our kids at home is really an option. If we get to this point, it usually isn't and could do more harm than good. We all wanted to keep our kids at home,but to truly love them, we had to look to places that specialize in this.
Coming on this board you'd get the idea that HELP is a bad and shameful word. Good for you for asking, but you'd be better served over at http://www.strugglingteens.com. They are not associated with the WWASPS schools, as they are a group of educational consultants and WWASPS doesn't pay educational consultants so they discourage you looking there. But...their forum is good.
PHX :wink:
Anonymous:
--- Quote ---but to truly love them, we had to look to places that specialize in this.
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Anonymous:
Only kids who are a danger to themselves or others need to be placed in a "locked" (meaning 24 hour supervision) facility and even then, 90 days is about the average length of time needed to stablize them.
Parents who turn to private lock down facilities as the answer to conflict in the home, school or community often believe they are "saving" their child from certain harm when in reality, they could be placing their son/daughter in an environment ruled by fear and intimidation.
BUYER BEWARE.
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Anonymous:
--- Quote ---On 2005-09-03 17:31:00, Anonymous wrote:
"Jelly Bean - I'm curious as to why you would be posting on a program "hate" site? If you are truly looking for the best option for your family, wouldn't it be better to identify first what you are looking for - what issues are you currently looking for help with and then ask for references from each of the schools you are researching. Ask those parents (and you can ask to talk to their teen if they're now home) to give you both the good and not so good in their experience. I know that most parents and the teens will tell you what they did or didn't like about their school of choice.
Asking here is going to give you too much fear in seeking help - like everyone on here says, they think keeping our kids at home is really an option. If we get to this point, it usually isn't and could do more harm than good. We all wanted to keep our kids at home,but to truly love them, we had to look to places that specialize in this.
Coming on this board you'd get the idea that HELP is a bad and shameful word. Good for you for asking, but you'd be better served over at http://www.strugglingteens.com. They are not associated with the WWASPS schools, as they are a group of educational consultants and WWASPS doesn't pay educational consultants so they discourage you looking there. But...their forum is good.
PHX :wink: "
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Obviously you are a program parent ... someone who advocates "programming" vs. "parenting".
Struggling Teens is a forum infested with toxic parents.
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