"...it's all very simple to understand students....males..grow a pair of gonads...females git rid of yours...OK, on your way out drop $5 in the shoe box"
Posted on 12/28/2016 7:02:35 AM PST by COUNTrecount
Therapy: OK. We all need a little help now and then. Personally, my dad had size 11 therapy for me, and it was conveniently attached to the end of his leg. But not everyone is as lucky as me.
Yoga: Good exercise. Sure.
Meditation: Sitting around thinking about sex and video games. Probably not all that helpful.
Art Therapy: coloring books. Useless.
I did it for free as an adult leader for a Boy Scout troop. Obviously, I really missed a great profit potential. Think about it: the merit badge system is totally pointed toward responsible “adulting” (hate that word, even the FR spell check tries to change it) with cooking, cleaning, public speaking, etc.
Unfortunately, not enough bullying at school. Kids need to be toughened up, not pampered.
"...it's all very simple to understand students....males..grow a pair of gonads...females git rid of yours...OK, on your way out drop $5 in the shoe box"
Public speaking and communication is 75% of what I do in a white-collar job. The kids in WBill Jr's troop are going to be head-and-shoulders above their counterparts.
Some of those crappy jobs which I worked at during college (cab driver, factory hand, delivery driver, retail clerk, etc.) provided strong motivation to finish and get a real job a.s.a.p.
Exactly. They need drill sergeants, not another safe place with binkies and green crayons.
“yoga and meditation, massage, dramatic role-play, and art therapy.” Well, that might be why that one guy has stayed there over a year. He gets massages while mommy and daddy pay his rent. Wow, it’s got more perks than mama’s basement.
Lemme guess, when they do finally get out, they go right back to mama’s basement and wonder why they relapse. Heck, no. Slap their parents hard and allow them to only pay one month’s rent for what we all know as one step up from a dump and that’s that. Either the pajama boys grow the bleep up, find a job and manage on their own or they’re out in the streets.
heh, you and me both, FRiend. I think that everyone needs to work a lousy job so that they can appreciate a good one when they see it.
Difference between us and millenials is that our "Plan B" wasn't to move back home and let our parents support us.
Its simple. If a kid is still living with mom and dad after thirty, they are never moving out. And by living with, I mean they are not working steadily. They are being supported by mom and dad.
People who get up everyday to go to college. Need to keep it up and get up everyday to go to work. Then they need to stay hooked on the paycheck. Getting up and depending on a paycheck is very important.
At some point kids become hooked on the social activity of work or a mate. The social needs are reinforcing work either because you need the check to pay for a house or children. Or because all your friends are at work, so you want to do well in front of your peers. The snowball continues for a while.
Paying $30K to teach your kid to get up and go to work is not likely to work. When the kids get out, there is still the parents home. There is still the nice warm pillow. Kids of any parents that can afford $30K know how to create a resume. They know how to dress for work. They just don’t. Work sucks. getting up sucks. And drugs (I am sure there are some out there maybe pot or beer) are available.
I think they should move into the Salvation Army or the Y. They will hate it so much that they look for a real job. Or depression and drugs will take hold and they will end up in jail. Jail teaches you to get up every morning, believe me.
“I really can’t tell if this is satire or not.”
I know. “Yellowbrick” screams satire, as does the phony bullet list of pseudo-scientific euphemisms for “How we’ll fix your crap parenting”.
Lol.
When Mommy is willing to pay $1,000 a day for baby to grow up a little, that is not the solution. Mommy being willing to do this is the problem.
My wife and I raised Americans - conservatives - by choice. All of our kids can cook, and all can change a flat tire. All can and do clean. All know that they are to be on time, always, or call in advance with a good explanation. All chose employable majors in college and earned excellent grades. All know how to defend themselves physically. Most even do “art therapy”, making professional-quality things that they want and can use from wood, from metal, or from other appropriate materials.
That works. You learn to show up on time, work in teams, stay neat and tidy, show respect for others, keep a schedule, stay focused on complex tasks, stay fit, go for long periods without self-indulgence...
I recommend a period of starvation and homelessness instead.
My older son said “...the discipline didn’t hurt much ...”.
This is a mental health facility, not a "finishing school", as some have put it.
Note they talk about such ailments as Diagnosed with depression, major anxiety, and panic disorder.
I have no doubt that such mental ailments DO exist, and these are things one might not be able to simply "snap out of" any easier than one can "snap out of" a broken leg or heart disease.
Now this particular treatment isn't necessary effective, as they say 80 percent have relapses, but that is not uncommon for those poor unfortunates who have these type of emotional disorders.
It is not for Millennials per se, but for young adults/teens.
I say this as a parent who has a child (young adult) suffering through this. She gets very good treatment by taking medicine which fixes her brain chemistry and sets it right. Not much different than me taking my high blood pressure and cholesterol medicines, without which I'm on a fast ride to a heart attack.
I guess I am blessed in that my Millenial daughters were eager to get on with their educations, careers, and marriage.
Or given us a deadline on when to move out. It just wasn't cool to be living with your parents either, not unless you were helping take care of them.
I wouldn’t call an 80 percent relapse mixed.. It has failed. This isn’t a failure to launch, it is a failure to be shoved out of the nest and stumble. .. maybe even tweak a wing. I blame the children, but moreso the parent who call their 25 year old child’s boss.. because Johnny won’t be in, he has a fever, yeah ok kid. You just made the short list for next to go.
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