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This is Tess' story:
My daughter, Tess, had been going to a preschool prior to moving to Behave 'n Day Center. When Tess was at preschool, there was a lot of aggression and she refused to listen to the teachers or the other students. I had taken her to a nurse practitioner who diagnosed her with ADD and put her on a medication called Adderral, but she did not get any better. Tess later had a reaction to the medicine and we took her off of it. The practitioner then started her on Zoloft, but it didn't her any better either. She was very lethargic, not like a normal 4-year old should be, so the practitioner took her off Zoloft, too. When I was at hospital, I found a Behave'n Day Center flier and made an appointment to talk to the director. By this time, the preschool warned me that Tess would be kicked out if she had any more outbursts.

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This is Jacob's story:
Our son, Jacob, is a lovable, intelligent, insightful, funny and imaginative five-year old. Jacob can also be a manipulative, defiant child full of rage and prone to violent attacks and destruction of personal property. I believe that his mom and I are caring, capable parents, but we were unprepared and increasingly unable to deal with these disruptive behaviors. It is difficult to describe the frustration and sense of helplessness we felt as we watched Jacob's outbursts occur more and more frequently and become more severe. Jacob had attended preschool since age 3. He did okay for a while, but there were occasional episodes at home and school where he essentially lost control and descended into an animal-like state.

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This is Wally's story:
Behave'n Day Center has been a very positive influence in my child's life. When my son, Wally, first started there, he would not listen to directions and would laugh at you when you discipline him. After attending Behave'n Day Center, Wally follows directions better than he did in the beginning and he will accept his consequences without having to go all the way to time-out. Behave'n Day Center is a very good program for families struggling with discipline problems.

This is Andrew's story:
Our son, Andrew, has had behavioral problems his whole life. It just went unnoticed and denied until it escalated so badly that he was unsafe around other children. In the spring of 2001, it all came to a head when he was expelled from a Catholic daycare center for using foul language on a regular basis, hitting others for no reason, and threatening to choke teachers and younger more vulnerable kids. He was back talking, throwing temper tantrums, hitting us and was always defiant to authority figures. He was labeled as a "bad boy" and he knew it.

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This is Nick's story:
I am a mother of a five-year-old little boy. At the age of four, my son, Nick, started having inappropriate, uncontrollable outbursts. The daycare he attended started reporting extremely disturbing behavior. At first I didn't believe this was happening. I had never had a problem before with aggressive behaviors from my kids, so this was unusual. Nick started doing things like spitting, biting, hitting and throwing things at his caregivers and other children. He was out of control. I wanted to blame someone, so I placed the blame on the daycare he had been in because they had handled the behaviors inappropriately at times themselves. Normal daycare providers are not trained to work with aggressive youth, so I am sure they were at a loss as to how to control Nick. But the fact is, Nick needed a special type of help that the other center wasn't able to give him.

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