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