Parents, have you ever had your out of control child put in boot camp? If so, why and did it help,?

All a "boot camp" does is instill discipline. I would research the one you want to send him to because of the horror stories about them. There are other possible alternatives that would work depending on what your son's issues are. If they are psychiatric, he can be hospitalized. If he needs a more structured environment, short of boot camp, send him to residential school. (His school district will pay for this.) If he really needs discipline, try boot camp or military school.

Think carefully about where your son's problems could be coming from. Choose wisely. Whatever you choose, make sure you take care of yourself during this stressful time. See a therapist or take some parenting classes. You will need to make sure that you can keep up with what the program has taught him. You will also need to provide the level of discipline he needs in order to succeed. Good luck to you.

Wow. There are a number of things going on here and I'm hard-pressed to figure out how to sort all of this out. But here goes... 1. You don't say how old she is. That is a major factor. Okay, I see she's 12 now. 2. It does sound like she has some depression, anxiety and/or bipolar disorder kinds of issues going on. (And, given her mother's history, hardly surprising) But the faster you can get her to a mental health professional to sort this out, the better. 3. In one breath, you talk about how she doesn't have the ability to understand what's going on, and in the next, you rage about your inability to spank her, and said spanking would somehow magically make her gain that understanding, empathy, etc. That's not how spanking works. Spanking is a last-ditch, last-resort attempt to dominate the child and control the situation. If she is unable to understand, then spanking isn't going to make it any better. 4. This is where I get to give you some tough mom-to-stepmom love: Get over the need for her to approve and love you every step of the way, and that goes DOUBLE for your husband. You're allowing her to manipulate you and your feelings with this stuff. Get tough, set standards, ground her and be prepared to suffer her displeasure. It sucks, it's no fun, but it's what's known as "being a parent." This applies to your new son or daughter when the time comes as well. Parenting ain't no popularity contest. She will come around in time. 5. Present a united front. If your husband imposes discipline, then you have to back him up, and vice versa. No more divide and conquer. In short, get your daughter help and get yourself a couple of pairs of spines on the rest.

My brother went to one of those programs. The child has to want to change. It didn't take long after he came home for him to go back to his old ways. He's now 26 and straightened up his life. He is in the army. I cn't say any of that is because of the camp. One thing that still has an effect on him is food. At the camp they had to "earn" what ever amount of food they were given and then only had 5 min to eat what they could. This was in a respectable recomended camp. My parents researched adn vounterely placed him htere. Good luck.

i live in ohio and i have a 15 yr old daughter that was getting in some trouble and we have a scared straight program here they took her to a womans prison for a hole 24 hrs and she came back never have a problem again but sit down and talk to him ask him why he is doing this and what can be done to stop it and watch who he hangs with