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Christian Boarding Schools in Springfield, Massachusetts

Looking for a Christian boarding school near Springfield, Massachusetts? Is your teenager spinning out of control? We can help you, without charge…

There is nothing worse than living with a teen spinning out of control, and no worse feeling than the hopelessness parents experience in the process. It is hard to know what to do and how to react when your boy or girl daily reaches new lows in disobedience, dishonesty, and disrespect, and chooses badly.

We know, because we went through the same thing with our boy. Raised in a Christian home and mostly home-schooled until high school, we suddenly found that we didn’t know him. He had changed seemingly overnight. His academics started falling and his interest in sports and old friends shifted to a new group of friends — the kind parents are wary of — the kind of kids that got kicked out of a public school, so the local private school took them in.

Unknowingy, our son was already heavy into smoking marijuana, huffing, drinking alcohol and just about everything else his new peer group dared him to do. The downward spiral was dramatic — all the way down to holes-in-the-walls rages, running away for days at a time, and finally threatening suicide. After months in counseling, the therapist proclaimed that there was nothing more he could do. He recommended a local boarding school where issues could be dealt with and the influence of his negative peer group could be broken.

Putting our son in a therapeutic Christian boarding school was the hardest thing we’ve ever done as parents.

Not only would it mean selling everything and cashing in all of our savings and the boy’s college fund, but it would mean not seeing our boy for long periods of time. We wept for two days after dropping him off. But then, a couple weeks later, we learned our boy had been attacked on campus. Unfortunately, the program we put him in was also taking in some violent gang members (they hadn’t told us that), and our son was soon their target, nearly killing him. After his recovery, we went on our own search for the right Christian boarding school where he could be safe and be treated for his issues – after all, he still needed help, and now he also needed therapy for the trauma of being attacked.

We learned from this traumatic experience that therapeutic schools can be quite different and need to be selected based on their strengths and avoided if they have serious weaknesses. It’s important to know what those are.

Some therapeutic boarding schools are good, and others are not so good. Some target one set of issues; others are experts on other issues. But talking to them, they want to fill their beds, so they’ll often present themselves as “experts in all areas” having to do with behavior.  But that’s not always so. Some kids are just being rebellious, but others are really dealing with serious issues that may not be known to their parents. So choosing a “behavioral modification” program when a “therapeutic” program is needed can do more harm than good.  It can also be a big waste of money.

No one was available to help us in Springfield find the right program for our boy. We made a mistake to begin with, and that cost us dearly, but after months of research we found a good program that was able to help our son. Today, our family and even our son are thankful for that program.

The program we finally enrolled him in literally saved his life and got him off the downward spiral.

So, is your family experiencing the same storms of a teenager who is out of control? Are you walking on similar pins and needles around your teen? Does it sometimes seem like he or she has suddenly been taken over by aliens (well, not literally)?

Let us help you in finding the best program near Springfield, Massachusetts. We’ve made it our life goal to know all we can about every program, so we can help parents (without cost) find the best possible option for their troubled teen. We want to help parents avoid the same mistake we did.

Now, every day we hear from scores of frustrated parents in towns like Springfield, Massachusetts, who share how their once normal and happy child has become dangerously out of control — just like our son was. They talk about how it has disrupted their family and how they fear for their child’s future and very life. “My child is no longer who she used to be,” is a typical cry from these parents.

If your son or daughter is out of control, he or she needs you to intervene. That’s why you’ve landed on this site, so allow us to be the help you need to help you find just the right program near Springfield, Massachusetts.  The downward spiral your teen is on can have tremendous destructive potential with lifelong consequences, or even bring a young life to a quick end. Don’t wait.  Act today based on what you know is true – your faith, your own beliefs, and what you know is best for your child.

Use our expertise to help you find a Christian boarding school closest to Springfield, Massachusetts that will provide your teen with the help and mentoring he or she needs, and within your budget.  We’ve visited most of these schools and we know the staff there.  We know what they are good at, and what they are not so good at.  We poll parents who have placed their teen in these programs, so we know how well they have done.

You may not want to put your child in a nearby Springfield merely out of convenience (like we did).  Rather, find the program that is most likely to help your child, wherever it may be located in the country.  Give us the chance to tell you about a few of them.  Fill in the inquiry form now to begin that process.  There is NO CHARGE for this service. We will deal with you according to your wishes and call or email the information to you confidentially and as convenient.

More about Springfield, Massachusetts:

Springfield is the most populous city in Western New England, and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.Geographic reference Springfield sits on the eastern bank of the Connecticut River near its confluence with three rivers; the western Westfield River, the eastern Chicopee River, and the eastern Mill River. As of the 2010 Census, the city’s population was 153,060. Metropolitan Springfield – one of two metropolitan areas in Massachusetts has an estimated population of 698,903 (2009.) July 1, 2009, estimated:
The first Springfield in the New World, it is the largest city in Western New England, and the urban, economic, and cultural capital of Massachusetts’ Connecticut River Valley, (colloquially known as the Pioneer Valley). It is the third-largest city in Massachusetts and fourth-largest in New England (Boston, Worcester, and Providence are larger). Springfield has several nicknames The City of Firsts, because of its many innovations (see below for a partial list); The City of Homes, due to its attractive Victorian residential architecture; and Hoop City, because basketball currently the world’s second-most-popular sport was invented in Springfield.
Hartford, the State of Connecticut’s capital city, lies only Convert south of Springfield, on the western bank of the Connecticut River. Springfield and Hartford share Bradley International Airport, which lies equidistant between them. The Hartford-Springfield region is known as the Knowledge Corridor because it hosts over 160,000 university students and over 32 universities and liberal arts colleges – the second-highest concentration of higher-learning institutions in the United States.http://sdplotkin.com/files/WMECO_Review2010.pdf] The City of Springfield itself is home to Springfield College; Western New England University; American International College; the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s School of Urban Design; and Springfield Technical Community College, among other higher educational institutions.
The City of Springfield has played an important role throughout American history, due largely to its geography. Founded on New England’s most fertile soil, at a natural crossroads of four rivers and ancient roads headed in all directions, it is located midway between Boston and Albany; it is only slightly farther from New York City, and is the closest major New England city to Montreal. In 1777, Springfield’s location led George Washington and Henry Knox to found the fledgling United States’ National Armory at Springfield, which produced the first American musket in 1794, and later the famous Springfield rifle.Firsts | Springfield 375] From 1777 until its controversial closing during the Vietnam War, the Springfield Armory attracted skilled laborers to Springfield, making it the United States’ longtime epicenter for precision manufacturing. Springfielders produced many of America’s most significant innovations, including the first American-English dictionary (1805, Merriam Webster); the first use of interchangeable parts and the assembly line in manufacturing, (1819, Thomas Blanchard;) the first American horseless car, (1825, Thomas Blanchard;) the discovery and patent of vulcanized rubber, (1844, Charles Goodyear;) the first American, gasoline-powered car, (1893, Duryea Brothers); the first successful motorcycle company, (1901, “Indian”); America’s first commercial radio station, (1921, WBZA from the Hotel Kimball); and most famous for the world’s second-most-popular sport, basketball, (1891, Dr. James Naismith).

 

Excerpt about Springfield, Massachusetts, used with permission from Wikipedia.com.