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.
