Home Boys

Seth Kadish relays his experience as a therpist at a South California group home, talking, learning, growing with his caseload of boys on probation. It’s an unexpectedly raw take on the boys and himself — he is upfront about his frustrations and disappointment with the boys, but also his pride in and hopefulness for them.

They are young, he constantly reminds himself, and have endured an incredible amount of physical, emotional, and mental anguish. Their “natural” childhood environments were abhorrent and unstable–homeless, kicked out, or evicted–and Seth grapples with how stern to be, how angry to be, and how to help them understand what emotions are and how to examine them healthfully. It’s an unvarnished reflection on the best way to see and treat people who put up shields upon shields of armor, sometimes as a result of forces that are out of their control.