If your son presents as being disengaged from school, you are well aware that the marks he is bringing home do not reflect his ability. Although marks do not necessarily reflect intelligence, your son’s belief in his own intelligence can be reflected by his marks. Too often once a boy’s disengagement from school begins it takes on a life of its own.
To reverse this process, it is important to be able to get your son to believe un himself and begin to put in the effort and perseverance required to climb out of the hole he has enabled himself to end up in. Support, encouragement and a belief in hard work and its results require a specialized program that supports your son in a holistic manner.
Does this sound like your son?
- He has prioritized detrimental interests, activities, and friends.
- Having found acceptance in other places, he defiantly defends them.
- He has now associated his family with the things that are NOT working for him.
- He is in crisis. He needs to “get out” of his current situation to get what he needs: belonging, recognition, and self-confirmation / success.
- He is energetic, inquiring, testing authority and limits. (These are positive traits if properly directed.)
It takes a fair amount of intelligence to get into this much trouble. Bored and fed up with “failing” at the right things, your son is successful at the “wrong” things. He is capable. He is getting attention. If only he could see that what he is excelling at today has no long term rewards. If only he could find rewards in activities he can build on. He needs to be “turned around”.
The impact on you and your family is immense. Your son’s special temperament is the hardest type to parent. Mainstream schools’ systems do not support you or your son, making the job even harder. As mainstream solutions continue to fail, the situation keeps getting worse. You feel stressed and panicked. You are losing your son. He defiantly opposes any attempt to assert control, and with each attempt that fails, your control drifts further. And, he has lost control of himself. This is the crisis.
The Solution
Robert Land Academy is the solution that uses a proven model and has proven results.
The situation is drastic and demands drastic change. Giving him another “second” chance will just prolong and worsen the situation. Don’t risk it. Enrolling him at Robert Land Academy can address the crisis now and set him back on track.
Robert Land Academy provides an all-encompassing program that addresses the unique needs of your son and directs him to succeed, not fail. It is a full-time environment that works with you to re-establish his self-control and in turn your control. Your son needs to belong, and that includes belonging to your family again.
Over the past 40 years Robert Land Academy has been successfully proving that boysADHD characteristics can be turned around – leveraging the underlying potential for success. Within a structured environment that is free of distractions, ADHD tendencies can be harnessed to your son’s advantage. Positive attitude, pride, health and academic achievement can be his.
At Robert Land Academy, foundational courses target core areas of literacy and numeracy. Through the identification of actual grade level performance and diagnostic testing, academic remediation and upgrading, and specific individualized programs, boys can master the academic requirements necessary for the successful completion of their courses of study and gain the self-confidence needed to pursue their dreams.
A boys’ boarding school situated on 168 acres in the rural Niagara Region, Robert Land Academy structured environment for academics, fitness, and social responsibilities. Robert Land Academy works for ADHD characteristic boys precisely because it is a self-contained environment where distractions are minimized. No other school or program offers this level of supervision, clarity, and consistency. Expectations are clearly set in this environment.
