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Christian Boarding Schools for Parents of Troubled Teens

Restoring Troubled Teens offers the most unique listing of  Christian boarding schools for troubled teens. If you are a Christian parent of a troubled teen and you need to locate the perfect Christian boarding schools we can help.  Our professional child placement agents are parent coaches and family advocates.  They specialize in enrollment and admissions in the very best Christian boarding schools for troubled teens.  Our educational consultants can assist you in enrolling your child in a school or program that perfectly matches your teens specific needs.  Call 888-836-4689.

Our definition of a troubled teen is much different than most. Our approach to serving troubled teens is just as unique. However, the purpose of this web page is not to discuss our approach as much as it is to define the term, "troubled teens" and Christian boarding schools. We want to take the time to clarify the term, and to define our version of what a troubled teen is, and how he/she became that way. To know what we are dealing with does just as important as knowing how to deal with it.  Christian boarding schools are one of the very best options and educational alternatives available.  For immediate help from professional educational consultants call 888-836-4689.

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To us, troubled teens that we refer to throughout our web site is really an "entitled" kid from a good family, a kid who appreciates nothing, disrespects his/her parents, refuses to take responsibility for his/her actions, blames others for his/her own poor choices, academically unmotivated, but motivated to do anything to gain acceptance by his/her negative peer group. More specifically, today's troubled teen is a monster at home, often yelling and screaming at parents and defying parental authority at every turn, but a great kid outside of the home. Yes, outside of the home the troubled teen is polite, respectful, and looks and acts like a normal kid. Christian boarding schools.

To us, a troubled teen is not a thug, a thief, a gangster, a criminal, violent, defiant toward all authority, or any other description that describes someone with a mental disorder. When we use the term "troubled teen" we really mean to describe a "spoiled brat". We mean to describe a kid who has every possible resource available to make something out of him/herself, yet all they want to do is hang out with negative friends and "run their own show". We are referring to kids that have been blessed, gifted, and very talented but are wasting their God-given potential trying to emulate the latest rapper. This kid is only interested in how he/she is viewed by his/her friends, and cares nothing of their parents and how they feel.The troubled teen that we serve comes from middle and upper middle-class Christian families who have good morals, good work ethic, principled, and are integral. These families have raised their children in good Christian homes, attending church regularly. But, about the age of 12 their child began to change. First came the rap music, then the clothes, and the hip language. Pretty soon all that used to matter is gone, and it has been replaced with defiance, anger, and rebellion toward parents. Today's troubled teen acts 8, and demands to be treated as if they were 30. Christian boarding schools for troubled teens.

With these kinds of kids therapy doesn't work, it just makes them worse. Why? Because being a troubled teen is not a mental disorder, and therapy rarely works with kids anyway. Furthermore, this is a spiritual condition, and not a mental health issue. It is also an emotional immaturity issue, and not a lack of therapy. These troubled teens don't need a therapist; they need a sense of reality, they need discipline, and a sense of appreciation for the blessing they have. These kids suffer from the disease of "entitlementitis". Entitlementitis is a disease associated with prolonged exposure to unearned prosperity combined with numerous parental rescues. It comes from living in a society where everything is expected instantaneously, without effort. Entitlementitis can only persist in an environment where accountability is disregarded, and blaming others is always the "special of the day". Entitlementitis is the biggest epidemic since polio, and twice as devastating.

The main culprit behind the rapid spread of entitlementitis is the parent's prosperity. Parents across the nation work very hard to protect and provide for their children. They do such a good job that kids don't learn to struggle, to preserver, or to fail. As soon as a hyperactive kid begins to act out we as parents rescue him/her. We give them an excuse and call it ADHD. We take them to therapists, give them medicine, and then teach them that they don't have to work hard like the rest. In trying so hard to give our children the best of everything we end up rescuing them from the very thing that is supposed to bring about their growth and maturity. Then they turn on us. The bottom line is that American teens lack nothing, and do nothing to get it. When they struggle, we rescue them and bail them out. As parents, we are not alone as the whole nation is guilty of bailing out irresponsible people. It is pervasive throughout all of society.  Christian boarding schools for troubled teens.

At Restoring Troubled Teens we ask, "how is a therapist going to provide a spoiled kid with discipline, or a disrespectful kid with gratitude?" It won't happen. And, we wonder, "How can Ritalin or Zoloft help a kid to take responsibility, to care for others, or to give of him/herself without expecting something in return?" I ask, "Has this nation gone crazy?" We are getting out of our children just what we should expect. As adults, parents, and as Christians, we have to begin to take back what has been lost and make some major adjustments. God is calling parents of this nation to drawn a line in the sand, and begin to repent from our mistakes and allow Him to restore our children. It is not too late. We can stop the progression of the disease called "entitlementitis!" What we first do is stop what we have been doing for a long time. Stop rescuing your child. Stop giving him/her excuses. Let him/her take responsibility for their choices. It is time to relearn, restore, and redeem what has been lost. We need to get down on our knees and ask for forgiveness and cry out to God for wisdom. We need to come together, as the Body of Christ, and make a clean cut from the ways of the world. We have to surrender, and get ready to make some sacrifices. True prosperity will come to those who seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness first. We need to return to the priorities, and that is to live a life surrendered to the will and purpose of God.  Christian boarding schools for troubled teens.

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