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The traditional boot camps for kids are being outlawed and disbanded due to a few reckless trainers who kicked a couple of kids to death. No more boot camps. However, there is a window of opportunity open for a new profession, a new career. The At-Home Boot Camp DI (Discipline Instructor). The visiting DI.

For the parents:

If there’s no longer a boot camp where you can send your kid, then, by Gawk, bring the boot camp to your kid’s home.

It works somewhat like the home-visit, once-a-week dog trainer for your newly-acquired, untrained dog that you yourself can’t handle.

The at-home Discipline Instructor type comes once a week, and you and he/she works with your kid to learn a few things. Like clean up your room.

The first visit: The DI arrives and sends you off shopping and while you are gone for an hour, the DI takes your kid into the garage or basement and beats the shit out him for you. This is a make-or-break moment. The DI must prove to the kid who is stronger, who is boss and that the DI will stand in for Mom or Dad anytime to prove the kid is no longer the boss.

The first time the DI helps your kid clean their room, everything, everything, everything is removed from the room and packed into garbage bags, the furniture and bed stored somewhere else in the house/apartment or placed into and locked up in outside pay-for storage.

Everything works on the day-before principle. If the kid rated an “A” for yesterday, then he might request his bed back today.

As for food and drink: Padlock a chain around the refrigerator door. You feed the kid when your kid’s been good the day before. Otherwise….

If your kid runs away, the DI will find him and bring him back. They will come home the very long way. You may need to have band aids ready. Note: You, yourself must never strike or verbally abuse your kid. You call on the DI and he takes care of that for you.

Carrot or stick. You use the DI as the stick to train him. You use the kid’s possessions restored bit by bit to reward him his carrot for the day.

The DI is not a baby-sitter. At the DI’s (Discipline Instructor) rates, you can’t afford such a day-to-day baby-sitter. DI’s can’t live in; they have other clients. They may call upon your kid once, preferably twice a week. And during emergencies at special, additional rates. Neither is the DI a big brother or a big sister (in that organization’s sense of the word). But DI’s are bigger, all right.

How many harsh at-home lessons will it take to turn your kid around? It depends. A DI can tell when a kid is scamming them, so another month might be necessary. Usually, it takes 60 days to 90 days. It is expensive for this one-upon-one course of learning discipline.

Later in the course, the DI will teach you how to do joint-chores, then you and your kid practice something together, like washing the family car every day, all week. On the next visit, the DI checks you and your kid out and makes suggestions for improvement in washing the family car. And later, preview the next lesson. Please, don’t you do the entire course yourself, this is a professional’s job. You can’t be DI and loving parent at the same time. It will destroy the new matrix. Hiring a DI, is going to cost you a bundle. You do love the kid, don’t you?

Blog4Brains nor anyone here at b4b is liable for any mishaps. Pick your DI by word of mouth, if possible, with care. May you and your kid have peace. When you lock up your kid overnight in his or her bare-bones bedroom, make sure you have installed a fire alarm outside the door and have an extra key just outside the door as well. Take care.

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  • My posting here called “Bring Boot Camp Home” is intended as humor. All humor. When written, it was not intended as a parental guide on actually setting up a boot camp at home, although I suppose this enterprise may be possible and I may have even invented a new profession — the visiting at-home Discipline Instructor. However and nevertheless, before any parents even consider such an undertaking at home, please go the professionals. Always. For a legit boot camp and related schools for troubled teens, please click here for this website — Turning Winds, the troubled teens guide.

    http://www.troubledteensguide.com/newcompany/Tu...

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  • My posting here called “Bring Boot Camp Home” is intended as humor. All humor. When written, it was not intended as a parental guide on actually setting up a boot camp at home, although I suppose this enterprise may be possible and I may have even invented a new profession -- the visiting at-home Discipline Instructor. However and nevertheless, before any parents even consider such an undertaking at home, please go the professionals. Always. For a legit boot camp and related schools for troubled teens, please click here for this website -- Turning Winds, the troubled teens guide.

    www.troubledteensguide.com/newcompany/Turning-W...

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  • I don’t know where one would find a D.I. as described in this article. I doubt if there are any. This article was written as humor. Not fact. Thank you for inquiring.
  • CHRIS
    WER CAN I FIND A DI
  • You can franchise the D.I. idea provided you establish a working and profitable D.I. biz on your own, work out a manual for operating it, provide training, set instructions and rules -- all this of yours learned from firsthand experience. Aside from that, I know nothing more of what is involved with franchising a business of your own. You’ll need to research that.
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  • Problems with licensing. Before becoming self-employed as a D.I. you will need to check the laws in your state. Would you have to have a certification as a teacher to teach kids the proper behavior? Can you get by via Home-Schooling for others? As a tutor? This may be a problem because a child is involved.

    You may not want to work under your own name. Most likely, you will need a business license from your city/town. Like one of those D.B.A. (doing-business-as registrations.) That way you will be able to cash any checks made out as, say: “D.I. On Call” (which may also require a fictitious name registration with your state). Try “Martha Smith and Associates” and see if that will work to cash checks made out in your name for your services as a D.I.

    Insurance???
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  • Thank you for your kind words in responding to "Bring Boot Camp Home." It was a humorous posting I had a lot of fun writing. There isn't any such person or company offering such services that I know of. You are welcome to the idea, with the opportunity to break some ground in a new profession. There should be a great market need here, if clients can afford the DI. By the way, It would help for basic education to read about/actually train dogs at dog owners' homes.

    I think the greatest benefit here which you pointed out is in teens learning discipline at home, rather than being shipped off to a distant, isolated camp. They could still stay in school, sleep in their own beds. Hey, kids take lessons outside of school, in tennis and golf. Why not in this program?

    And it might be something for kids to brag about, an "in" thing among their peers to have a personal DI trainer. Who knows? This may be the first time anyone ever paid the kid any attention -- and that the kid might welcome.
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  • As much as it may be possible that this is just an exaggeration of what a real DI may do to a child, I think that in some circumstances, this may be a viable alternative to either sending your son/daughter away to boarding school (to "push" the problem away), or waiting on them to break the law and be forced into a juvenile institution where they would be summarily disciplined and/or be forced to change the way they go about their daily lives. I wouldn't go so far as to have the DI physically abuse the child, but the concepts they may learn by a person who does this for a living may be the answer you and your spruce may have been looking for their entire lives. An informative "funny" and serious post. Thanks for putting it up.
  • No problem -- just use a condom.
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