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The Total Transformation Scam (aka The Total Brainwashing)
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The Total Transformation Scam (aka The Total Brainwashing)

Can someone tell me wtf this is?

This just sounds like another one of those programs that treat the child like the enemy.

Quote:Like many parents of kids who act out, you may have been in family therapy with your child. And you've probably come out wondering why it's still so difficult to get your child's behavior to change, after you've spent all that time and money.
Here's why. Traditional counseling and therapy focus on getting a child to talk about his "feelings" and building his self-esteem to change his behavior.

I believe there's a better way. And, in my experience, parents need tools they can use at home once the child comes out of that office and faces day-to-day, real-world challenges.

Behaviorally troubled kids lack the skills to solve the problems they encounter every day. The Total Transformation® teaches you how to give your child more effective ways to solve his problems than fighting, screaming, annoying and defiance. He'll learn a simple system that will enable him to handle his problems appropriately and on his own, without acting out. A system that gets him…and you…better results.

I love how much this is simplified. Like your children are just something you can manipulate and there is simple reason why your kid is being a piece of shit.

Quote:There's no psychobabble or high-brow theory. I'll teach you exactly what to say and do to stop the arguments and get through to your kid, no matter how resistant he is to you. No matter how difficult the behavior has become at home and at school.

Lol. Did you not stop to think maybe there is a legitimate reason your child is "acting up" (whatever that means)? Sorry but parents can be dumbasses too.

Also, it's hard being a kid in this industrialized western world. The real problem is that we live in a material society that is confusing and extremely imposing on even children that can hardly locate their dick (they have kindergarten entrance exams in some places now LOL). A typical child that grows up in western society today has unneccessary pressures, gets bombarded with consumerism, becomes increasingly estranged by their parents who are more than likely empty consumerists themselves, and lives according to innumerable, meaningless social images that confuse any sort of natural humanity left in them only to be replaced with vanity (success, money, empty relationships, cliques etc.). I'll go out on a limb and say behavioral problems are a combination of a child feeling alienated (usually from their parents or from the world in which they live in general) and/or confused with a lot of bullshit they picked up from school, their peers, TV advertisements, mass media etc.

Good luck on your shitty "Total Transformation" program.

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The quieter you become, the more you can hear. - Baba Ram Dass
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