Can You Call a 9-Year-Old a Psychopath?

[Lionessa]

91. We seem to be agreeing, though you're doing in a very disagreeable way.

At no point did I suggest that the parent(s) learn from self-help books. Unfortunately though, the problem with wholey outside specialized attention is that the parents don't learn much so when the children are returned home, they revert because what didn't work at "camp" starts once again to work with parents and others. The parents need the education as much as the child, since they are part of the problem. Nurture, not nature, create psychopaths; again it doesn't have to be abuse that causes it, it can be caused by weak, ineffective parenting by people who try too hard to "love" and "befriend" their kids instead of teaching and disciplining. But even "professional" help isn't much better than the self-help crap.

The most psychopathic boy I knew in school was the son of two psychologists, they tried so hard to do things according to all their learned crap, but alas, those are seemingly geared to the idea that all children are the same, they aren't. Some need a stronger hand, others need no more than a "no".