| When your out of control teen joins one of many boot | | | | is a teen who will usually resort back to their old ways; |
| camps for teens, one thing she/he will experience is | | | | sometimes the underling behavior is worst than before |
| in-your-face confrontational yelling. I've never | | | | they entered the camp. |
| understood this approach of trying to reach a | | | | Not all boot camps for teens take the approach of |
| stone-walled teenager by doing the one thing that all | | | | breaking a teens spirit, and if a boot camp is needed |
| human being despise - disrespect. Sure enough, you | | | | for your teen, be sure to investigate their disciplinary |
| can get a teen to follow the rules if your screaming at | | | | actions before admission. Is there ever a time when |
| them every few minutes. Mix this in with a few | | | | yelling at a teen is appropriate? Yes, if you have a |
| brawny, bold, muscular men and you can get any | | | | teen who is dangerous to himself/herself, or is a |
| group of people to obey your commands. Does all this | | | | danger to society, and you've tried all other |
| subjugate yelling produce the results that most parents | | | | alternatives, then more drastic measures may be |
| are looking for before sending their troubled teen to | | | | needed. Most teens placed in these camps do not fall |
| one of these potentially brutal camps? I don't think so, | | | | in this category, and its these kids that should not be |
| but unfortunately these camps reign mild terror on | | | | placed in a boot camp that promotes yelling. |
| thousands of kids each year. | | | | When you have a teen who is smoking marijuana with |
| Yelling and screaming at young teens will set up an | | | | their rowdy friends, staying out all night, missing |
| environment of physical abuse. Abuse at boot camps | | | | homework assignments, getting into fights at school, |
| for teens has lead to explosive situations where kids | | | | among other anti-social behaviors. You may feel the |
| were hit, and even killed in some isolated situations. | | | | need to place them into a camp that will "get their |
| Maybe that's the reason the recidivism rate is so high | | | | attention" by yelling at them so loud that the teen is |
| for a lot of boot camps. Many parents who has put | | | | scared straight. Before you do remember that we as |
| their teens in these camps have nothing to show for it | | | | people have a genuine desire to be loved, cherished, |
| besides a lighter wallet and a now frightened teenager. | | | | and respected. And although your teen may not be |
| These teenagers are then sent home after three to | | | | extending these desires to others, taking those desires |
| six months of boot camp terror. What results from this | | | | away from them produces--nothing. |