Also the daughter needs to set up some rules, if grandma were to talk to her. No taking the baby to meeting or out in service. And no Jehovah talk in fromt of the impressionable baby.
JW grandma, unbelieving grandpa and DF'd daughter - babysitting rules
by Bonnie_Clyde 36 Replies latest jw friends
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OUTLAW
Loosie..Your not going to stop a Brain Dead JW from trying to preach to a baby..I could`nt shut my mom up,if I put a gun to her head...............LOL!!...OUTLAW
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StAnn
If the DF'd daughter wants to keep her dad in her life, there is no reason why she has to do that through babysitting. Grandpa can go to the park with the child on the weekends, go over to the daughter's house for dinner with her husband and baby.
This woman needs to look at the fact that HER OWN MOTHER WON'T SPEAK TO HER BECAUSE OF THE WTS. How can she be a good grandmother? She's a horrible mother! This grandmother simply can't be healthy for the baby to be around and can't be trusted not to try to indoctrinate the baby. Betcha anything she's reading it stories from the My Book of Twisted Bible Stories. Pretty soon, she'll be letting the baby play only with her friends' JW babies and grandbabies when it's at her house and telling it not to play with the neighbor kids because they're worldly.
St. Ann
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StAnn
"And no Jehovah talk in fromt of the impressionable baby."
Loosie, that would be like telling me no Catholic talk in front of the baby. It's part of my vocabulary. I say Catholic things without even thinking about it. If someone sneezes, I say "God bless you." If I sneeze and someone tells me, "God bless you," I answer back, "God preserve you," which is the Catholic response. The Dubs have their own jargon and it is impossible for the grandma not to use it around the baby.
It's a very bad situation. The grandfather is really between a rock and a hard place.
St. Ann
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loosie
What I meant St Ann was no "Jehovah doesn't want you to do this or that" kind of talk. I have a wide range of friends from catholic to taoist to wiccan. Not one of them would say to my child the Pope, Buddah or Goddess doesn't want you to do that. I meant no jw guilt talk.
Also solcial services has programs where they can help single mothers out with child care. Non denominational child care. that way grandma doesn't have to be bothered by her her Df'd daughter and she can spend more time in service until she starts missing her grand baby. grandpa can see the baby when the mother is off of work and no grandma shouldn't tag along.
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mrsjones5
Daughter needs to suck it up and be a mother. Let Grandpa come and visit the baby. She can find another caretaker for the baby. Oh, and where are the inlaws?
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Bonnie_Clyde
"Daughter needs to suck it up and be a mother. Let Grandpa come and visit the baby. She can find another caretaker for the baby. Oh, and where are the inlaws?"
Since daughter's husband is also DF'd, the in-laws will have nothing to do with him. They were both disfellowshipped for living together, but now they are legally married (at least 5 years). Seems like 1 Corinthians 5:11 says not to eat with someone who IS a fornicator, not someone who used to be a fornicator. Anyway, what right does the WT have to judge fornicators when they fornicated themselves with the UN for 10 years?
Thanks for all your responses. I'm just kind of bummed out about, not only this incident, but the one I posted this morning about the friends who won't let their DF'd daughter give them a 50th anniversary party. It also bothers me that at one time I would have gone along with all this BS.