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Date: September 27, 2017 06:07PM
I would just like to say, Turnabout Stillwater Academy and Turnabout Ranch are two totally different programs. I know because I was in Turnabout StillWater Academy. I was in there for almost 2 years. Whether it is owned by a morman or not is plain weird. It is family owned you could say. I personally dont care for the family myself but they are actually really good people. It is expensive and my parent put me and my older brother in and even my little sister. Turnabout actually taught me how to take responsibility and I had gone through alot in my life but I seemed to always play the victim. Now as a parent myself It is amazing to know how important it is for children, and adults to say I did this and Iam sorry. Turnabout has crazy weird rules, and at the time I didnt understand them. But as a teen you kind of need those weird rules. The Teens need to pulled out of their element...
Think about it. For example if you lied you had to carry a phone book around. and if you kept lying more phone books.. 3 was the max and then you had to get a backpack for them. and they couldnt touch the ground. It was weird but it made so much sense. What were they going to do? Spank us? its child abuse. Put us in the corner? we do the silent treatment anyways. This was we were held accountable for our actions. We had to carry them around and our own peers who cared for us would look at us like we were liars. We didn't want that!. We had to "request" off of the phone books 3or 5 or 10 at a time. and as a kid I was a really bad liar. lol Most of us were. And by not letting us put in on the ground made us accountable that we had to always hold that lie. These types of consequences make sense. I am pretty sure they dont do that anymore cause of some child that complained about abuse. Lazyness... Like I said every child takes the program in their own way. My little sister ended up going to prison after Turnabout. She manipulated my mom to pull her cause of her "health issues" my sister didnt want to held accountable. And its not like I can say shes doing bad still but lets just say Shes now a serious felon and dates the worst guys. My brother was a little wild before he went in, when he got out he hesitates before he tried every drug in the book. But again when he was in he didn't really work on himself. I am not perfect. But as someone who has held down a job and provides for my family now, can say I learned so much from this program. Teens are going to complain about everything. Change was hard for me, its not pretty and no parent wants their kids to be uncomfortable but you have to be confronted on your behavior.I was a troubled teen that didnt talk to my parents about anything at all. I couldnt relate and we just couldnt talk about what I was going through.
I didnt go to school, I had a small bad attitude, I wore crazy clothes etc. But I needed to wake up before it was too late.
I remember they would make me take responsibility for things i didn't do. and at the time I was so angry but when I started to change my integrity started to be valued more, my word actually meant something. I graduated at the highest level 5. Its a really big deal at the program. I won a scholarship and graduated from high school. My brother and my sister did not. They didnt want to change. My life was not perfect at all but at least this program gave me tools that would help me in the world.
This girl sounds like she doesnt need Turnabout. But there is alot of misinformation on here. Just had to say