For each of the new blogs, i'd like to have a repeating page where parents can quickly get informed about what tough love is, where it came from, and why it's so dangerous. While I could write it myself (and probably will write a draft), I believe in the principles of competition, and that there are many around here who are more capable and influential writers than I. What better way to create this important piece of content than to offer it up to the community to write and then vote on and/or edit collectively.
I look forward to reading your submissions in this thread.
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Suggested starting point:
Phyllis and David York (lots of information on them if you search on fornits, as well as elsewhere). They wrote the book on tough love. Reportedly it didn't go over so well with their own kids.
The reason I am suggesting this article: "troubled teen" and "Troubled teen industry" are keywords that are already firmly locked down on apall.org. "Tough love" could also get a fair amount of traffic. How do I know this? I follow the industry's marketing (something that we should be matching):
http://www.4troubledteens.com/toughlove.htmlTheir target market is
our target market. Let's take advantage of their market research and copy them.