Brat Camp and a New Lease on Life
Brat camp was a great success for Elaine and her troubled teenage son Eric. That was last summer when after a horrible year at school Eric’s parents decided to put the brakes on their troubled teenager’s head long plunge into drugs and criminal behavior.
What inspired Elaine was seeing the movie “Pride” (review below). Eric had always loved sports and had been on the swim teen in his freshman year.Moving to a new school and the death of a friend had totally derailed Eric’s happy go lucky nature. Drugs and trouble with the police followed.
Elaine did her research on the various brat camps and military boarding schools and decided to go with a brat camp that emphasized water sports. Elaine had the right instinct. Eric resumed his swimming and so loved the experience that he asked to go to a military school near by that could prepare him for a life in the Navy.
Teen crisis intervention can happen is so many ways, some, as seemingly inconsequential as a movie”
If your family hasn’t seen Pride, rent it this week-end.
Relevant Tags:brat camp, drugs, jim ellis, military booting schools, teen crisis intervention, troubled teenager“The year is 1973, and Jim Ellis (Academy Award® Nominee Terrence Howard), a college-educated African-American, can’t find a job. Driven by his love of competitive swimming, Jim converts an abandoned recreational pool in a Philadelphia slum with the help of Elston (Bernie Mac), a local janitor. But when city officials mark the Philadelphia Department of Recreation for demolition, Jim fights back - by starting the city’s first African-American swim team. Recruiting troubled teens from the streets, Jim struggles to transform a motley team of novices into capable swimmers - all in time for the upcoming state championships. But as racism, violence and an unsympathetic city official threaten to tear the team apart, Jim must do everything he can to convince his swimmers that victory, both in and out of the pool, is within their reach…”
