Thank you Whooter!
You really made my day!
I will print your post and show it my colleagues...and to my American friends too....they actually live in Europe and really need this lesson to know, how terrible life in Europe is and what terrible parents Europeans are
Thanks for the laugh, really:))
I am sorry my response bothered you so much. I don’t think all Europeans are terrible parents, just like not all Americans are terrible parents. I think that Europeans like yourself are limited in the ways they can help their children and options they have available to them. Some parts of Europe lack the information to allow them to make the best decisions for their children.
But still...you did not answer my question...
I really hoped to hear and opinion, why is this acceptable, to send the children away and not to actually parent them...like we terrible Europeans do:))...instead I got a lecture about life in Europe.. ...well, thanks anyway!
I have been reading here for awhile and haven’t seen one example, here on fornits, of an American parent not parenting their children. If you are referring to at-risk children who have not responded well to local services then I would say that occurs around the whole world. Most of these kids have been parented since birth, though. If you feel the best thing to do is ignore their problem then that is your choice as a parent. But many feel they should try all the options available to them to help their children, even if it means being away from them for awhile.
Many of these children respond very well to their stay at Therapeutic Boarding schools and after several months return home and move on to a happy and healthy life. What is so wrong with that? To give up a year versus a life time is the better choice I would think.
If your child were dying of cancer, they were not responding to any local threatments and you had the choice of sending your child away for treatment which you have seen work well on many other cancer patients would you choose that?
or would just taking your chances at home without treatment hoping it would go into remission on its own?
Should we criticize those who choose to send their child for treatment or those who decide to not spend the money and hope they get well on their own? Or maybe we shouldnt criticize either one because it is atheir own decision to make.
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