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Thayer Learning Center in Kidder MO
Anonymous:
Obviously Ms. Bundy is alive and well, as she can compose three separate "endorsements" supposedly from grateful students. Ms. Bundy, however, has the same fault as the editor of The Source magazine from WWASPS. All the messages to this board have the same syntax, grammar, spelling, code phrases, and program rhetoric. Even slipping some cute little "...I was really wrong and got sent to isolation, but came to learn that life was better if I was good" don't make the postings sound like they came from three different formerly-rotten teens.
Nice try, Wila.
Anonymous:
It's really sad. I can almost hear---who was it? Steve Martin?---
"Ah was born a poor black chahld, but Thayer *saved* me! They taught me to set goals and re-spect mahself and now ah am a 5'7" blond, blue-eyed Harvard Law student--with perfect teeth, studying medicine on the weekends, and work part-time as a supermodel on alternate Thursdays---but only in Christian catalogs, of course."
So, come, turn in your defective normal kid that looks and acts just like *you* did as a teenager. We'll put him through our transmogrifyificator and turn him into the perfect little Aryan Christian Achiever of your dreams!
*sigh*
How much do you have to hate yourself to take a teen that looks and acts just like you did and "send him back to the kitchen" for a full makeover into some frankensteinian combination of Donnie or Marie Osmond crossed with Jennifer Anniston or Mel Gibson, crossed with your local congressman or congresswomn, crossed with Doogie Howzer?
I think some of it has to do with too much television----not the *kids* watching too much, but the *parents* watching to much.
On TV, everybody's beautiful, even the geeks are beautiful, if you look closely--their social problems are only matters of style that they could change if they only "knew better."
On TV, if you're bad at school, you're socially cool to make up for it---nobody suffers through being awkward *and* struggling academically.
On TV, the actors playing teenagers are all in their 20's, and they all manage to solve their "growing pains" in a heartwarming way and learn an important life lesson in thirty minutes---one hour, max.
On TV, the "good" kids either get their life together or have some compensating strength--in thirty minutes to an hour---and the kids going through a bad patch episode after episode tend to be depicted as rotten monsters. The kids going through a bad patch not only don't fix their problems in thirty minutes, they *never* grow out of being rotten. They occasionally have their mandated heartwarming moment---but they always go right back to being rotten by the end of the episode or the next episode.
On TV, nobody ever has a truly insurmountable problem that actually *does* limit their options in life. Joan of Arcadia's paralyzed brother is about the closest I've seen TV come---and everybody is supportive and nobody freaks out and just treats him weirdly.
On TV, nobody is ever a jerk about just one or two things and just plain dislikes one or two people who get along with the rest of their friends. On TV, nobody just has plain old bad parents. If they do, the bad parents aren't a part of an ongoing drama, they're the butt of comedy. (Angelica on Rugrats, Al and Peg Bundy).
I think Program Parents expect raising a teen to be like a TV show, and are surprised and frustrated when *their* teen isn't Richie Cunningham or John Boy or Lizzie McGuire.
And so it becomes "unacceptable" for their teen to be just like they or their brothers or sisters or their classmates were as teens, and the Program Parent becomes easy prey for places that promise a too-good-to-be-true outcome for prices that, if you're spending that much, *must* mean they can fix all your parenting "mistakes" that made *your* kid not turn out like John Boy or Lizzie.
And, of course, paying through the nose makes it feel enough like penance that you can indulge in a little self-flagellation to calm your soul and feel like you're expiating your sins of commission or omission in parenting.
Program Parents need to grow the hell up.
Life is not a TV show. Real teenagers do not look like charming twenty-somethings. Real teenagers do not solve their adolescent turmoil in thirty minutes or even thirty weeks. Real teenagers *also* don't stay stuck in adolescent turmoil forever. Their bodies and brains mature, they figure it out, and over the course of several *years*---they grow up---no Program required.
Program Parents need to grow up and accept their adult responsibilities. *Their* parents put up with them during their pain-in-the-neck teenage years. It's their turn, it's their job, and shuffling them off to strangers will never substitute for modeling accepting personal responsibility and being a parent *personally* even when it's tough---no matter *how* much money they spend.
A couple who work 80 hours a week, each, and foist their toddler off on the best nanny money can buy are no kind of parents, no matter how good the nanny is or how much she costs.
A couple who send their teen to a Program instead of taking personal responsibility to personally raise him or her are no kind of parents, no matter how much the Program costs or how many "seminars" or how much "therapy" they attend.
They want their teens to turn into instantly personally responsible little adults---while abdicating their own ***personal*** responsibility as *real* adults and parents.
What a ginormous whopping case of "do as I say, not as I do"!!!!
Hint: *Personal* responsibility means you can't just pay someone else to do it.
Timoclea
(As always, I exempt genuine cases of child criminals actually convicted in a court of law with due process serving a sentence with all their rights respected, and genuine cases of a mentally ill person who's an imminent danger of harm to self or others being temporarily hospitalized in a quality mental hospital to have his/her condition stabilized, and genuine cases of a person so permanently mentally impaired that he/she will need an assisted living arrangement for life, and genuine cases of substance *addiction*--not casual abuse--where the child is receiving the *same* short course of rehab that adult addicts sign themselves in for.)
Anonymous:
ACTUALLY, those Stories Are Real, Im the m7dt428 guy.The first one, I recognize as Max Slade, because i remember he came there the 30th, and went up to residency on the 85th day.His dads name is Dave Slade, and there from Ne Mexcico, and he owns a milliondolar company i think.Ive talked to him before, and told him he should take him out cause there's nothing really good comign out of it and EXPLAINED eveyrhting that was happened but i guess they convinvced him otherwhise
I dont remember the May 11 one(must be a female)
but i think the sept 19 one is a guy named Thomas Dobia im not sure.
Anyways these Stories ARE Real, written by the students themselves, and revised(not really just spelling errors) by Staff.These Are Written for graduation Day, which used to be every 3-4 months, but what I guesss is it is every month for all the students comin in.Anyways the Studentss probly are jsut writing that to get out, becasue if they dont they will get to be in bootcamp for 3 more months as stated in the contract(if they return to previous behavior they can attend basic traning for 3 more months for free).All the people named in those speeches are real, Im sure of that.
Who are posting these speeches?Post Some more :smile: :smile: id liek to hear.
m7dt428@yahoo.com
Anonymous:
im just bored now so ill post whayt i no
http://tlcprogram.com/showimages/23.jpg
joshua wilriams on the left, timothy farrignotn on the right, with an American Schools book on the couch.I believe this is on the 3rd floor built by the residents(i painted part of it)
http://tlcprogram.com/showimages/2.jpg
this picfutre was taken back in may 2003 when blake scroggins arrived.The 2 sargents r sargent atchison and sgt skidmore.
http://tlcprogram.com/showimages/29.jpg
this is during the kidder parade in october, i am actually there down the row but not visible
http://tlcprogram.com/showimages/26.jpg
this is the male residents room
http://tlcprogram.com/showimages/19.jpg
timothety farrignton with Family Rep Jim Gray, Former Drill Sgt.
Anonymous:
Scotty now has Alzheimer's, poor thing, and he probably can't beam Willa back up. Too bad.
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