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Learning Responsibility

Published: Friday, January 20, 2012 Daily life in a therapeutic boarding school is full of opportunities to teach troubled teens about responsibility. When a senior student attended an AA meeting off campus without getting a replacement for her after-dinner clean-up job, she was confronted about her lack of responsibility when she returned. Her lapse isn't uncommon, but the students who

On the Bright Side

Published: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Many of the troubled teens we serve struggle with depression, as do teenagers everywhere. One senior student who is particularly prone to pessimism recently talked about it at lunch. He had been given an "anchor," a distinction that students here earn after several months of making positive changes and working their program. "But people expect more of me

Honest to Goodness

Published: Monday, January 16, 2012 A troubled teen boy who has been here for several months recently admitted stealing another student's watch. The incident was particularly unsettling to him because, although he used to steal at home to buy drugs, he had thought his stealing days were behind him. "I had a resentment with him," he said of the other boy. "His watch was just sitting there,

Stay in the Day

Published: Friday, January 13, 2012 A therapeutic boarding school presents students with any number of challenges to their old ways of thinking and being. One is the idea of staying in the day. It means to focus on the here and now, on the task at hand, on TODAY, rather than on all the "if only's" and "what if's" of yesterday or tomorrow. Recently a boy here shared his struggle with envy.

It's About Character

Published: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 Setting aside our personal resentments, expectations and anger to help someone else isn't easy for any of us, let alone a troubled teen. But that's precisely what building character is all about. Recently a student found this out when she was asked to "shadow" another student, i.e. walk with her to her class. She refused to do it because the other

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