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Helping Kids

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shanlea:
OK. I've got a question, and I hope to get some good insight. When I went to CEDU RS, it seemed a lot of kids there were not violent or drug addicts, just spoiled brats or depressed or unique or a little defiant.  In fact, you had to go to detox first if you had a drug problem.  It was basically a place for rich parents to send the kids they ignored for years after the kids got out of hand, in their opinion.

However, I am reading some posts where some of you are saying you went to jail a bunch of times, or were very aggressive etc. and I'm wondering what you really needed? Were your parents afraid of you and didn't know what to do? (Believe me, I'm not justifying CEDU because I don't think it deals with root causes and I also think if you OVER control certain kids, it only makes them more aggressive.)

Last, if a kid needs help, how do you provide it? I mean, I needed help. I wasn't on drugs; I wasn't violent; I wasn't a shoplifter or anything but I experienced a lot of trauma, neglect, etc.  I was depressed, not functioning, and had low self esteem. Some people say therapy, but I was all talked out. I already had therapy w/different people and all you do is sit and say boo hoo. That doesn't do shit.

How do we help kids who really need help when their parents already either dropped the ball or tried everything? Do we just say TFB? Because that sucks.

**PIXIE DUST**:
something that would have helped me out was if my parents would have tried to understand why i did the things i did.  i used to cut on myself real bad, and they would see the cuts and not say anything, or even ask what happened.  
  when i was little up until about 9th grade (about a year 1/2 b4 i got sent to BCA) i would get beat up in school, i would get kicked and hit with shit, called a LOT of name, thrown down stairs, shoved in lockers, you name it, the popular kids at school did it to me.  (i eventually learned that i might be a good idea to start fighting back...)  i would come home crying all the time, and my parents didn't even ask me what was wrong.  they saw the bruses, and the scraps, and like i said, they didn't bother to ask.  
  i wish they would have a least made an effort to try to find out what was going on with me instead of making me see tharepests, med doctors, sending me to mental institutes, and sending me to BCA.    
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Oppositional Defiance:
Well we can always go after them with high tech assault rifles and combat gear. I'll even volunteer to officer!

CEDU IS A CULT:
Does anyone understand the self-punishment of a wasted life, satisfied with mediocrity, following and dedicated to falsehoods?  It's a naked lunch.

shanlea:
Bryan: I asked a question. Do you have any answers?

And to answer your question, I think many people's greatest fear is a wasted life.  Satisfied by mediocrity is contentment to some and impossible for others. And dedication to falsehood is just another ignorance=bliss equation.  Naked Lunch? I tried to read it but couldn't get into it.

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