"while it might please your friends, it's making Jehovah sad."
8yr old: yea, my friends are super stoked I'm gonna be there! I am the coolest kid ever.
(that's the kind of my thing my 8yr old g-daughter says to me)
lisa
My mom to my daughter: "BD party might be fun but it will make Jah sad"
by SweetBabyCheezits 31 Replies latest jw friends
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lisavegas420
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isaacaustin
Sweet, you have said it a bit nicer than I would have said it.
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moshe
Your Mom is expecting you to do this- just reinforce in her mind that you are against Jehovah. She can go back to the KH and tell everyone what bad apostate adult children you are. She might even be used on an assembly program as an example of loyalty to Jehovah.
Will she get the point of why she can't see her grandchild? I doubt it.
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milola
My kids continued to see their grandparents after I was df'd. I think it is terrible to stoop to JW's level and break family ties. Give your kids a little more credit for being able to use their heads. Let gramma relay her beliefs, just make sure you are relaying yours and let the kid make up her own mind when she is old enough. Too many people on this forum make things much more complicated than they have to be. I have always been one to kill them with kindness.
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wasblind
Hi milola,
I understand what you are saying about family ties, and I'm sure sweets do to, that is why he allowed the visits.
but I don't think a child needs to be unecessarily put under that kind of pressure, It may be unavoidable if one still
has a spouse in the "truth" but sweets and his wife have made a clean break together, so if they choose not to fill
their childrens lives with guilt at all from anyone outside their immediate family they have that perogative. He did
his part as a loving son and as a caring father, his mom crossed the line . One thing you have to remember, if a baptist grandparent
was to approach a JW' child and start preaching, the JW's parent would do the samething sweets did. Sweets didn't stoop to their level
he showed unconditional love towards his mom.
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Soldier77
Wow man, I would be pretty damn irate at my mother if she did that to my kid...
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Little Imp
I cannot believe that an adult would say such a thing to a child. IMO everyone is entitled to their own opinion on any subject but if anyone has anything to say it should be said to the parents, not children.
However, if my husband had had children I am certain that his mother would say the same thing.
LI
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milola
Wasblind, I absolutely agree that it is everyone perogative to handle things the way they feel necessary. It is just my opinion that if you are open with your children that they can form their own opinions. You guide your children as they are growing not force things down their throat. You can explain in advance that so and so has a certain belief and this is how I feel. Then as I said give them the benefit of the doubt that they are capable of forming their own opinions. I also think that if Sweetcheeseits doesn't want their kids exposed to anything JW then he should explain that to his mother, not cut her off. My parents gave my kids all the kid JW books and even took them to meetings on occasion. They were also exposed to Budhism and my agnostic views. But in my humble opinion they were exposed to the love of their ENTIRE family and that is what has helped them to become the people they are today.
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rocketman
I Quit wrote: "Poor little guy. Some children are having a party for another child's special day and Jehovah is feeling sad because this kid is getting more attention than him. Do Jehovah's Witnesses really think this whiney self-centered little cry baby is the right guy to be running the universe?"
Funniest thing I've read in quite some time!
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Scully
Get your daughter to practice saying "Grandma, if you don't stop talking to me about Jehovah, my daddy won't let me visit you anymore. And no, I won't keep it a secret if you do. People who want kids to keep secrets from their parents are bad, like child molesters."