Creating Responsible Young Adults With Teen Boot Camps

As many parents grow frustrated with their inability to break through their teenagers stubborn rebelliousness, they are looking for, and finding, outside programs which claim to alter a child behavior patterns.

Designed to mimic a military boot camp, teen boot camps involve a very strict regiment of discipline while troubled teens are taught life lessons and are molded into responsible young adults. You will find multiple success stories of this type of program on afternoon television, but these stories of success are not necessarily the norm.

Unfortunately, the only thing that really happens at a lot of these types of programs is that the kids get yelled relentlessly until they submit. Sometimes they may submit just so the yelling stops, but the initial problem that spawned the negative behavior is never addressed.

As a result, when the teen returns home, so does the negative behavior. Often times the methodologies of these teen boot camps can be detrimental to the development of a child's self esteem.

While the camp serves it's purpose well in its ability to break down the negative attitudes that may be plaguing your teenager, they fail to take the proper pro-active steps required to build your teen back up into a healthy person who know how to handle conflict.

It appears that the biggest challenge that these programs face is finding an adequate supply of properly trained leaders. Anyone can yell, but educators who are trained to deal with troubled youths are in short supply.

All this to say that, the discipline and tough love that many families hope their kids will find at these teen boot camps, often needs to begin at home.

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