Troubled Teens Resources

Military boarding schools, brat camps,troubled teen boarding schools often get a bum rap in a society where progressive theories on parenting have run amuck.

The proponents of the current dogma insist on making children victims, sheltering them from the harsh facts of life by protecting them from competition, by making failure a bad word, by teaching them to blame others rather than to learn accountability. Since military schools and similar institutions follow a code in direct contradiction to progressive tenets, it is no wonder they receive a great deal of self-righteous verbal abuse.

But the stories in the linked article below are worth reading because they describe one of the basic precepts founds in a military schools or any academic institution dedicated to education and not indoctrination. Hard work. self-discipline. Ethics. Tenaciousness. That is the stuff of dreams coming true and futures that are fulfilling and productive.

“Hard work. Not making excuses. Refusing to blame others. Appreciation of this country’s rule of law and its free enterprise system, along with a willingness to accept the consequences of one’s own actions. Or, as our ex-homeless-man turned stockbroker, who now runs a multimillion-dollar firm, put it, “If all of this were to crash tomorrow, I’d get up the next day and get back at it. I’ve been there, OK? The worst thing in the world that can happen has already happened. What’s next?”

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