It's interesting.
You two fight about how this child should be parented,
and neither one of you are within a country mile
of what needs to happen with this child parenting-wise.
You are negligent parents,
and negligence is abuse,
and that needs to stop.
You do need to take her out of the game.
You do need to send her somewhere.
And the reason you need to send her somewhere
is you need at least
a period of time for the two of you
to work your butts off figuring out what you need to do
so that when she comes back,
she comes back to an environment
where the two of you
have the same plan for parenting this child.
And that means if she steals your credit card again,
you need to prosecute her.
Yes.
You need to put her in jail. (audience applauds)
There is a program
that's called the WinGate Wilderness Program.
It's a therapeutic wilderness program
that is truly among the best therapeutic environments
in the entire country for young people.
And your clock is ticking here.
She's 17.
When she hits 18
your ability to direct her goes to zero.
At that point you can influence her,
right now you can direct her.
If you're gonna turn her,
you need to turn her now.
But I'm telling you this,
I won't even waste time if you two aren't willing
to work with a family therapist while she's gone
to come up with a serious plan as a family
for her to come back to a non-toxic environment.
Yes.
And if y'all aren't willing to do that while she's gone,
there's no point in me, there's no,
I've got ten thousand people
that would like to have this resource.
I'm not gonna waste it on you
if you're not willing to do the work while she's gone.
Oh, I will.
I'm willing.
Because it's the difference
between this child having a chance at life,
or not having a chance at life
because you two have run this off in the ditch.
And I could easily have told her this,
but I don't want to be the one to tell her this.
This is your first step standing shoulder to shoulder
and telling her, "We're gonna send you to this program."
And you're gonna go back here,
and she's gonna yell, and she's gonna scream,
and she's gonna whine, and she's gonna promise,
and she's gonna manipulate,
and you need to say, "nope.
"You're going in."
Got it. (audience applauds)
She did not pass go,
she did not collect $200.
She goes from here to there.
Okay (audience applauds)
Okay?
Yup.
(air whooshing)
(dramatic music)
So are you all in then?
Yeah, sounds goods. Yes.
We just spoke to Shayne from the wilderness program.
We have decided to send Taylor there.
What the hell am I gonna do,
take her home with me?
And then what?
As hard as it is for me, I know that she needs it.
We decided that we are gonna send you
to get some help at WinGate.
This is Laura and Mike.
They're gonna take you there.
We are your interventionist transporters today.
If you need anything, please ask us.
Am I allowed to have a phone there?
Not there, no.
In fact, your phone's gonna go home with your family.
For safe keeping.
Yes!
So it'll be there when they come back with it, right?
I'm not going.
Okay.
No, I'm not going.
You don't need a phone out there.
I'm not going.
There's no choice at this point.
(sobs) I can't!
(Mom's voice drowned out by sobbing)
Dr. Phil told Mom and I
if we don't get our act together,
it isn't gonna work for you.
So we have work at this too.
Can I at least call my friends before I leave?
Listen, if you come to our car
nice and calm, (calm piano music)
we might as well get that out of the way real quick,
and give you a couple minutes.
Fair?
Can I have a hug please?
I love you.
You've got five minutes.
(car engine roars)