Are you a parent frustrated by your inability to control your teen's out-of-control behavior? Have you considered sending your child to a boot camp for teen boys in Texas? If so, you should first evaluate whether a Texas teen boot camp really provides the kind of help your child needs.

The goal of a teen boot camp is to essentially strip teens of their former selves, and then remold them into respectful and behaved sons or daughters. Camp instructors, who dress and act exactly like bona fide drill sergeants, employ traditional military tactics - including grueling physical activities, constant yelling and berating, and severe discipline - to humiliate teens and intimidate them into following the rules. While teens usually modify their behavior enough to leave or avoid returning to the camp, boot camps rarely achieve any long-term, meaningful change because they fail to address the emotional and developmental issues that lie at the root of teen behavioral and substance abuse problems. In fact, these camps usually reinforce a child's anger and resentment towards authority figures and rules.