An alternative worth investigating prior to sending your child away,
HIRE A COACH.
Parent and family coaching is becoming popular. It is less costly and has proven beneficial in helping to work through family issues that seemed insurmountable.
Coaching is different from therapy in that coaching does not dig deep into the client's past. Rather, the coach looks at where the client is today, where he or she would like to be, and helps pave the path to getting there.
A qualified coach will provide his or her clients with practices, tools, and insights, and will work to break barriers between parents and their kids.
The coach will help the parent to avoid common mistakes, enjoy the teen years, not dread them, regain confidence in their parenting abilities, apply a calm and consistent approach, communicate effectively, and maintain a relationship with their child or teen that is based on mutual trust and respect.
Coaching can have immediate results for families who find themselves at the end of their rope, ready to send their child away. While we know it will not help every family situation, we have heard from a number of families who have benefited from a coaching experience and who said,
"If I knew then what I know now, I would never
have sent my child away". Let us learn from the experiences of others.
Parents who find themselves struggling daily with their teens or pre-teens do not have the luxury of taking the time to dig into the past to try to figure out how they got here. They need results now! That's where coaching can help.
For more information and to see what parents who have tried coaching are saying,
visit www.positivefamilysolutions.com .
When is it necessary to send you child away? There is a point when your child is facing jail, death, or severely limited life if there is not clear intervention.
As a parent, it is not an easy decision to send your child out of your house to live in a Residential Treatment Facility. It is important to understand that when your child is at a level where exit of the family home is the only option, there are many considerations to where your child will go, how will you pay for these services and once the child is admitted, how will you know that your child is receiving the needed care and not being abused, neglected or medically deprived?
The following website is dedicated to exposing institutions who have had children abused or die while in their care. It is important to know that not all facilities are in this catagory.
COALITION AGAINST INSTITUTIONALIZED CHILD ABUSE
Seeking a secure, accredited facility can be daunting. Knowing who can be trusted is not as easy as it may seem. A website showing beautiful beaches and horse riding could never prepare you for the child you bring home months or years later that had been tortured, refused nurishment, did not received medical attention and whose education virtually stopped.
It is often anger and frustration that drives parents to look for a program for their child. There are people who stand to make a lot of money preying on their desperation. In one case, hundreds of websites lead some parents to the same
umbrella of programs that are part of a 133-plaintiff lawsuit filed in August 2006.
The Complaint speaks for itself.
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