Posted on 12/28/2016 7:02:35 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Inside the $30k-A-MONTH rehab center teaching millennials how to grow up with classes in basic life skills like cleaning and 'how to show up'
For $28,000 a month, patients will get taught basic life skills such as cooking, cleaning and even 'showing up' at Yellowbrick in Illinois
Other treatments include therapy, yoga, meditation and art therapy
The rehab center was founded ten years ago to specifically treat 'emerging adult' brains - millennials who had 'failed to launch' from their parents
Patients include a student who tried to take his own life after his parents found out he'd lost his part-time job
Diagnosed with depression, major anxiety, and panic disorder in remission, he was prescribed what Yellowbrick called 'nutraceuticals' aka vitamins
Success of rehab center is mixed, with 80 per cent of patients relapsing
Brain experts have also questions some treatments they say are unproven
We have all heard the stereotype; the fragile little snowflake millennial who cannot deal with the real world.
Well now an Illinois rehab center is charging the parents tens of thousands of dollars a month to teach their pampered millennials how to finally grow up.
For $28,000 a month, privileged 20-somethings who have failed to reach their 'true potential', will get basic life skills in scheduling, cleaning and even 'showing up', according to Fusion.
Therapy and group sessions are supplements by treatments such as art classes, yoga and meditation.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
I was just thinking what one month's cost of this "therapy" - $30,000 - would have gotten me when I was first starting out. I'd have been rich beyond my wildest dreams....
I was invited to dinner for Christmas at my neighbor’s house. They have 2 grandsons. One is 12, the other 15 or so.
A discussion came up about how little the schools teach life usable items. I am a life long bookkeeper/ accounting person.
I offered to teach both boys how to keep a checkbook register/ reconcile their checkbook against the bank statement & do simple budgeting.
One will be going out of the area to college soon, and he will have to know some of this simple math control of his funds.
I offered to do it for free...and Grandma jumped at the offer.
BUMP
They had above average communication skills, because they spent a lot of time talking with adults.
In schools, teachers talk DOWN to their students. Then when kids do talk, it's with other kids, with their limited thought processes and communication skills.
Homeschooled kids spend more time communicating with their parent/teacher, being talked to at a more adult level. Homeschool kids have more of a tendency to be working with a parent on a project. Whether that be with mom, baking, or dad in the garage. Projects that require concrete, analytical thinking and communicating.
With those projects comes self esteem.
Right now, I get to watch my buddy with his 5 kids. They're always working on something around the house. The boys (in particular) are eager to learn. Every boy always wants to grow into manhood. They want acceptance by their peers. They view adults as their peers.
When I'm over there and we get working on something, they ask a lot of questions. I talk to them, much like I talk to anybody else. I just adjust how I explain things, so that they can understand.
My buddy's oldest boy is 11. Drives a skid steer (bobcat) like he's been doing it for years. (oh yeah...he has). He's eager to jump in that thing and tool around AND to show what he can do.
He has become our third person in a project.
On top of this comes self esteem. Self esteem from working on and accomplishing projects.
Self esteem from spending quality AND quantity time with mom and dad
Self esteem from spending time with other adults and being able talk and associate with them.
With kids, success at working on projects, breeds more desire to work and succeed. Talking with and being accepted by adults, breeds more desire to talk with and being accepted by adults.
All this breeds confidence, and confidence is a key element to communication, no matter the setting.
Brilliant. And life changing for the kid. Good for you, and good for Grandma for recognizing a good thing when it's set in front of her.
It has been 40 years since I graduated high school. People that weren't going to college were taught this stuff in my high school. It wasn't taught to college bound students. They were suppose to be smart enough to figure it out. Not sure what is going on these days..
WBill Jr is much like the kids you talk about. His biggest complaint is that his peers haven't caught up to him; he prefers the company of adults. Not a bad thing, IMO, except that I'd like him to still be able to be a kid.
Schools should tech kids how to manage a check book even if they go online in the future. They should know how to right a simple business letter and resume. And they should know how to use word and excel. Its not that much. But it will get them a small job.
You can add things like driving, which includes paying for insurence, taxes, gas, and tags. And getting up in the morning to show up at work every day, not just some days. Laundry and keeping a kitchen and bathroom will come in handy. And dressing like a normal person at least to the point of getting a job and not losing it.
The reason they’re so screwed up is because their parents can afford that bullshit in the first place.
At the end of the process, we'd shortened the list to "Must show up to the interview on time", and "Must not curse at the interviewer". (really. Don't get me started on the list of candidates I suffered through....)
The "Great Recession" of 2008 sharpened our candidate list, somewhat, for other entry level jobs. We started to get better people coming in the door. But you're right - how to make a resume, "Turn off your cell phone", "Show up on time", how to present yourself at an interview, how to dress (hint: no shorts, Hawaiian shirt, or flip-flops, unless the job is at a Surf Shop) ... and so on would be invaluable, I think.
Not bullying ... children are cruel by nature, need to be held responsible for the way they treat others.
In my view, nothing takes the place of parents holding kids accountable from an early age. In our family, it was understood that my job was learning, getting good grades, and preparing myself for college.
As a result, my growing up years were mostly ... homework hell! But Mom and Dad were always there to help if I needed it. And there was usually a pizza in store if I brought back mostly A’s.
Still, even at the age of 59, I thank God for the simple pleasure of being able to read a book that I DON’T have to take a test about.
Not bullying ... children are cruel by nature, need to be held responsible for the way they treat others.
In my view, nothing takes the place of parents holding kids accountable from an early age. In our family, it was understood that my job was learning, getting good grades, and preparing myself for college.
As a result, my growing up years were mostly ... homework hell! But Mom and Dad were always there to help if I needed it. And there was usually a pizza in store if I brought back mostly A’s.
Still, even at the age of 59, I thank God for the simple pleasure of being able to read a book that I DON’T have to take a test about.
I’m dating myself, but I am reminded of a proto-slacker from early TV (I saw it in reruns), the immortal Maynard G Krebs, played by Bob Denver on the show, “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”. As a high school junior, Maynard probably needed the military draft to become the man that Beetle Bailey was! His trademark was saying the word “work” in the rising tone, signifying the horror of such devastation!
Oh great. First student loans they can’t pay back and now loans for THIS!!!
GAAAAAH! Am I alone left of the generation who were taught to use pronouns correctly? It should say, “Your parents deserve to suffer your getting your pants caught ...,” etc.
Don’t even get me started on “pants caught in a blood bath.”
Point being, we have our entire lives to be kids. Now, I know what I'm doing, when I do it :).
My goal is to make it to old age and still act and be young at heart.
The goal of children is to grow into adults.
They'll have their entire lives to be kids.
A little story.
Years ago, when my buddy's boy, that I mentioned earlier, was around 3, maybe 4 years old, he used to be a VEY moody/angry boy. He was having a bad day. A little more moody than usual. His older sister, who was around 5 at the time said "He needs to see Mr Dave (me)".
Seems the little ones viewed me as someone who was always upbeat and uplifting, and that I was able to overcome someones grumpiness.
Success.
Point being. Children have a limited time to grow into good adults,
but have their entire lives to be kids.
Just because you're an adult, or older adult, doesn't mean you have to be old and grouchy.
Teach WBill Jr to be a good adult. Being a kid comes naturally.
(Hint: part of teaching your boy to be a good adult, is showing him how adults can still be kids)
Hey, we have to teach them to fear and respect the escalator before we can worry about teaching them grammar :)
PARENTS’ PRIME DIRECTIVE: Teach your children to make it in life WITHOUT YOU!
That is almost the cost of inpatient drug or alcohol rehab. Do you suppose this is Yellowbrick is considered a medical facility, and these costs covered by medical insurance and/or Medicaid?
As a recovered alcoholic nearing 23 years sober, I get a lot of humor from these types of things.
With drugs and alcohol, expensive insurance reimbursed “treatment” and “detox” and “therapy” and “sober living” and “recovery” is all over the place.
The companies that deliver these services have brand new expensive passenger vans, to drive them around to their various activities.
They drop them off at AA meetings, where half of them stand outside smoking their hipster vape devices.
It used to be that people would make their mistakes, suffer the negative consequences, suffer some more until “hitting bottom.”
Now our “compassionate” society is all about catching them on the way down, effectively training them to expect to be spared from the consequences.
I see this in the same light. I noted the article said 80% failure rate.
No surprise. The school of hard knocks is better than this $28,000 per month money grab.
These insurance reimbursed programs are highly profitable.
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