If, indeed, these are absolutely uncontrollable teens who do whatever they want when they want and nothing their parents say or do to try and control them makes absolutely no difference then how come these same teens have been made to go to Brat Camp and endure all that it entails?
How come the uncontrollable teens are all of a sudden dutifully trooping off to Brat Camp in order to be taught how to behave well?
How come they are not telling their parents, less politely, to "get stuffed"?
Is it possibly to do with getting your face on telly or (nudge, nudge) some sort of financial inducement?
I just can't understand how these teens, who showed total contempt of being told what to do and how to behave have been persuaded to fly 3000 miles to the other side of the world to endure pergatory for up to three months or possibly longer.
Tjhey generally think its some kind of summer camp, and dont know that there living in a Tent in the middle of no where (there no very bright ti wud seem...)
I think each parent handled this differently, depending upon how they thought their daughter would react. Poppy had seen series 2 and although she thought she would be sitting in a stone circle eating porridge, she still wanted to go because she recognised she had a problem and needed help. The only fact we kept from her is that it was an all girls program - had she known that there were no 'fit' boys to keep her company she may well have changed her mind! She realised too that this was an incredible opportunity and could be a life changing event for her and as it turned out, it was.
Originally posted by stevo: If, indeed, these are absolutely uncontrollable teens who do whatever they want when they want and nothing their parents say or do to try and control them makes absolutely no difference then how come these same teens have been made to go to Brat Camp and endure all that it entails?
How come the uncontrollable teens are all of a sudden dutifully trooping off to Brat Camp in order to be taught how to behave well?
How come they are not telling their parents, less politely, to "get stuffed"?
Is it possibly to do with getting your face on telly or (nudge, nudge) some sort of financial inducement?
I just can't understand how these teens, who showed total contempt of being told what to do and how to behave have been persuaded to fly 3000 miles to the other side of the world to endure pergatory for up to three months or possibly longer.
The reason my teen went to Utah was, whilst she ignored my opinion, she knew full well that her life was disintigrating. She didn't go because I told her to....in fact she did nothing I told her!!! She went because she knew underneath that she was in trouble. Major trouble. She never felt that the tv side of things even mattered, but she did know we couldn't afford to send her ourselves. We accepted the camera because it meant she got the opprtunity to go. Thank goodness we did...
OK...if a couple of the Mums say they genuinely wanted to go, then I have no reason to disbelieve them.
I just still have a problem with the notion that the more articulate ones, like Julia, and the others who MUST have seen the programme before, would suddenly agree to do what they were told and dutifully go off halfway around the world without realising what they were surely in for.
If I was still sixteen (sigh) and was an uncontrollable brat (I never was, by the way), there would have been no way in hell you'd have gotten me there!!
I'm sorry, but I'm still not entirely convinced that there's not something else in it for them here to actually put themselves through this.
