Changing schools or moving are big stresses too. I know it may not be avoidable at times but the reason I am writing this is: for a long time after leaving the Family I thought that geographical changes would solve problems my children had in school and at home.
I'd get in a new location, new school and the problems followed along. That's because the problem was in the home and not in the surroundings. Don't get me wrong, I am NOT talking about fault here. Just that there are a thousand reasons for having adjustment problems after being in an institutionalized setting like the Family where information and socialization are limited to the confines of teachings from the top.
My children were ostracised for a time for being "different". Kids in school pick up on that but we left when they were younger than yours. My thinking, their thinking, our anxieties and fallout from the whole Family ordeal factored in.
Getting some support and help wherever I could was vital even though there are not people that are easy to find which are trained in understanding people who have survived cults.
I found professionals who would work with us for next to nothing and even for free who were willing to learn about our situation and apply their knowledge to help.
I took them literature so they could have an idea of what the Family was like. I found the people that helped the most were people who had worked with Domestic violence, rape etc.
Destructive cult leaders like Berg and Zerby are like rapists. The isolation abusers keep their family's in is similar and so is much of the abuse.
If this is any help to you at all then I am glad. If it isn't then sorry for butting in.
> He is turning 15 tomorrow. He is out of
> school for three weeks now, we have an
> appointment with another school next week
> and we are hoping for the best. He just had
> a very bad thing happening to him this week.
> Someone who he thought was his friend just
> told him that he was not her friend and she
> really did bad things to him. That was the
> only friend he thought he had at his
> previous school. I guess, we are ready for
> new beginnings,this school is not too big,I
> think it would be good. Pray for us in order
> to find the right solution for him. He is a
> bit depressed.