Boys Ranches Could Be Your Best Answer

Arivaca Boys Ranch builds three-legged platforms

A boys ranch could be the answer when parents feel like they are standing on their last leg.  However, sending a son to a boys ranch is usually not the first thought that comes to mind when a parent reaches wits' end. 

Boys ranches, such as Arivaca Boys Ranch, specialize in supplying three basic structures to achieve good conduct and productive living that many teenage sons may have missed:

• a strong sense of responsibility,
• self-discipline techniques, and a
• renewed love for learning. 

It takes all three legs to support growth and positive behavior.  If you feel like you no longer have a leg to stand on, there it is time to contact a boys ranch such as Arivaca and seek help.

Is the struggle about responsibility, or is it about control?

One of the most trying parts of being a parent to a teenage son is being ignored.  As parents attempt to teach responsibility and proper social behavior through words and actions, it is frustrating none of it has an effect.  Many parents do not realize that the problem has more to do with a struggle for control than it does with being ignored.  Teens ignore parents because they soon learn it puts parents on the defensive and pushes their buttons. 

The cycle continues until the method and environment changes. 

That is what a boys' ranch can provide.  Boys ranches not only remove the teenager from his bad-behavior comfort zone, but can exercise methods different than a parent can.

Self-discipline and self-restraint

Even if a parent is really good at practicing adolescent psychology, he or she will still be at a disadvantage because the parent is actually inside the problem—part of the problem.  Simple put, no matter how loud it gets, the parent is still not going to be heard.  Under such circumstances disciplining goes in one ear, out the other, and out the window. 

Successful discipline comes from successful self-discipline.  Once a teenager gains a sense of self-discipline and self-restraint, he is more likely to respond to the restraint placed on him by someone else—particularly a parent. 

Until a teenager's lack of discipline causes him discomfort, it will continue.  Teenagers quickly learn what behaviors work for them.  The solution, then, is to provide an environment where good behavior feels good and bad behavior does not.  Arivaca Boys Ranch can provide such an environment with experiences that cause a modification of behavior and good feelings to rise from within. 

Learning is about moving on

Restoration of education and a desire to enjoy learning is the third necessary support.  When a teenager replaces the frustrations of failure at school with success and a hunger for more, the battle is won.  Failing grades when decent grades used to be the norm isn't really about liking or disliking school. It has more to do with teens' manipulating control over parents by making them feel guilty and defensive.  When that manipulation no longer has a payback to the teen (as it would be at Arivaca Boys Ranch), then we can begin to re-address the process of learning and recover lost periods of advancement and learning. 

The solution to providing three stronger legs

Solution No. 1:  Equine Therapy

Arivaca Boys Ranch employs a unique way of reorienting behavior through the use of Arabian horses.  Equine therapy has become a reliable tool in modifying mood and behavior in troubled teens and even criminals.  The change in behavior can be quite remarkable.  Arabian horses are independent thinkers and have a strong will.  This means that a teenage boy is not going to succeed in getting the horse to cooperate with him by using the techniques and tantrums learned at home.  In many ways, the teenager becomes the parent, and the horse becomes the teenager; thus, the teen can empathize with what the parents have been going through.

Solution No. 2: Individual and Group Counseling

Individual and group counseling by licensed therapists take those experiences learned at the ranch and puts language and understanding around them.  The goal of counseling is to cement those experiences into behavioral changes by addressing the experiences and relating them to improved life experiences.

Solution No. 3: Recovery of lost academic standing

The real value of education teaches us what works in life and what doesn't.  We learn that through the experiences of others.  Secondly, and most important to adolescents, it teaches us what it feels like to meet a challenge and become successful.  Third, it allows a person to become more conversant on a wider area of topics thus avoiding having to say, "I dunno" all the time.  Finally, education allows a person to raise his vision to see the greater possibilities in life and understand the discipline that will be needed to reach new and loftier goals. 

Fully-Accredited High School with One-on-One Instruction and Therapy

Arivaca Boys Ranch has a fully-accredited high school with plenty of one-on-one instruction to help boys recover what they have lost in academics, as well as strengthen their ability to go on to greater learning.  Coupled with counseling and strong reinforcement of successes, Arivaca Boys Ranch can interrupt the downward educational spiral in your teenage boy and replace it with a drive to excel even higher.

With these three strong supports at your disposal, isn't it time to look into taking advantage of these advantages and even more that Arivaca Boys Ranch has to offer?  To gain a greater understanding of the possibilities and the benefits that Arivaca Boys Ranch can provide to you and your family, call us at our toll-free number, (877) 88-MYSON or (877) 886-9766.  It is a call you can only regret not making.

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