Is tutoring a friend who happens to have a mother who is a jw. I've mentioned the mother here before, she knows my mother. Well, our sons have become good friends, they go back and forth between our homes to hang out and play video games.
My son's friend (I'm gonna call him Jerry - not his real name) just got grounded for doing poorly in math and my son volunteered to help the kid out. At first my son was hesitant to help Jerry because helping him tends to disolve into conversations about girls (a subject that Jerry is very curious and uniformed about - the girls at school know this and tend to tease him about it) that he likes but can't date or anything like that. I've been trying to relate to my son how hard it is to be a kid/young man within the org and how to be a friend to Jerry (Jerry's father is not a jw so I'm thinking that's one of the reasons why my son has been able to get close to Jerry).
My son just dropped a bomb that Jerry told him that he really doesn't believe in all the jw crap. This is news to me because of some of the comments that Jerry has made to me about world events but I do see it as a glimmer of hope for the boy. I've told my son not to make a fuss about what Jerry has said, because Jerry is only 15 and really can't do much about getting out until he's older, but just be the friend I know he can be.