Extreme Brat Camp 4oD

[Vivacia]

Ok, I'm only 8 minutes in, but I'm currently rooting for the kids and thinking up all sorts of strategies.

I just couldn't believe what was happening on this programme. It is, in my opinion, child abuse. How children ever get over the experience I really don't know - or ever trust their parents again.

I cannot believe they are putting very young children through this, some as young as 5! It is not right, it is child abuse! Teens yes, but young children straight out of kindergarten, noway!

I have seen the first two minutes.

I feel that the parents who send these children on "brat camps" are the ones who need punishing. If a five year old is a brat then the parents are to blame.

These parents don't deserve children. Possibly they deserve to be sterilised with a gas blow torch, however that would not be civilised. I feel that people who abuse children or pay for other people to abuse children should be jailed.

These little ones, you just want to scoop them up and give them a big hug. They should employ these tactics in prisons and YOI here not on young chikdren

Yep, I can't see how the kids would ever trust their parents again. It seemed a bit of a game to some parents, taking photos with their phones and so on. Scary how many handed over custody to these big men with sticks and shackles and hotel rooms.

I am quite a strict parent and we run our house in a parent-led way. However, this programme upset me for two reasons:

1. Inconsistency. Instead of having a permissive parenting style and then suddenly subjecting children to a massively authoritarian one because you can't deal with their behaviour, why not just provide consistent boundaries at home, backed up with love and respect.
2. The methods. This sort of sleep deprivation, sudden change in environment, removal of familiarity etc is what I would associate with interrogation techniques or intense military training, not an intervention for a child that is already showing signs of unhappiness/distress.

It is,making me quite cross.

It was vile and very disturbing to watch. The boy crying and crying upset me most of all and the fact that his mother seemed quite frankly PLEASED to leave him there distressed ('he is not used to be following through...' - she was SMILING at his distress).
These relationships will be damaged beyond repair.