VM44 -- my name isn't Johnnie, but I was a kid in the organization in the 1970's, and I will turn 47 in less than two weeks.
So Christian youths should be encouraged to have "plenty to do in the work of the Lord." Godly parents need to assist their children to set goals that will give them a happy and rewarding life ...
SICK SICK SICK. They are blatantly advocating child labor, using the charms of innocent little children to promote their hideous propaganda. I know, I was used in this similar way as a child.
Parents here are urged to set "goals" of how their children can serve this organization. Even little children need service goals, according to the Watchtower leadership. Happy? Rewarding? I know from experience that they are lying and USING children.
They don't give a damn. If those kids gorw up messed up, they shunt them aside as being spiritually weak.
Did I mention that this usage of child labor is SICK?