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<blockquote data-quote="smallworld" data-source="post: 323511" data-attributes="member: 2423"><p>You could be writing the story of my son's life until he went to Residential Treatment Center (RTC).</p><p> </p><p>The isolation room, to my way of thinking, is punitive, not constructive, and will not help solve the problem. In fact, I believe it will just make your son feel worse about himself.</p><p> </p><p>Does your son have any adult mentors at school? Does he participate in any school activities that he enjoys or feels a connection to? What will get your son invested in school are the special bonds he can build through positive interactions.</p><p> </p><p>At his Residential Treatment Center (RTC), my son was assigned a "principles coach," an adult staffer with whom he goes off campus to hang out and do fun (as well as therapeutic) activities. He was also urged to join the basketball team, something he never would have done in his home high school. Right now he's on a service trip to Mexico with a dozen other boys and a group of college students to bring the holidays to children in an orphanage. </p><p> </p><p>A couple of weeks ago my son was on academic probation because he was several papers behind for his English class. He was told in a firm and friendly way that the natural consequences were that he would not be able to play in a basketball game the next day and he would not be able to attend a professional basketball game that Saturday evening if he did not get his work completed. I'm not 100 percent sure if this would have occurred prior to his going to wilderness over the summer, but he buckled down and got his work turned in. </p><p> </p><p>This is all my long way of saying that positives work far better than negatives, in my humble opinion. You need to find ways to build on your son's strengths and motivations rather than concentrate on his challenges and weaknesses.</p><p> </p><p>Good luck in your meeting on Friday.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smallworld, post: 323511, member: 2423"] You could be writing the story of my son's life until he went to Residential Treatment Center (RTC). The isolation room, to my way of thinking, is punitive, not constructive, and will not help solve the problem. In fact, I believe it will just make your son feel worse about himself. Does your son have any adult mentors at school? Does he participate in any school activities that he enjoys or feels a connection to? What will get your son invested in school are the special bonds he can build through positive interactions. At his Residential Treatment Center (RTC), my son was assigned a "principles coach," an adult staffer with whom he goes off campus to hang out and do fun (as well as therapeutic) activities. He was also urged to join the basketball team, something he never would have done in his home high school. Right now he's on a service trip to Mexico with a dozen other boys and a group of college students to bring the holidays to children in an orphanage. A couple of weeks ago my son was on academic probation because he was several papers behind for his English class. He was told in a firm and friendly way that the natural consequences were that he would not be able to play in a basketball game the next day and he would not be able to attend a professional basketball game that Saturday evening if he did not get his work completed. I'm not 100 percent sure if this would have occurred prior to his going to wilderness over the summer, but he buckled down and got his work turned in. This is all my long way of saying that positives work far better than negatives, in my humble opinion. You need to find ways to build on your son's strengths and motivations rather than concentrate on his challenges and weaknesses. Good luck in your meeting on Friday. [/QUOTE]
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