Kids should only be in field circus instead of having fun? That sure sounds familiar--I noticed too many of them wasting their whole school recess in field circus. One was dragged out every day, all day, for his whole April vacation because his mother decided to pious-sneer that month (the first year I was in the cancer). I have seen too many others out in field circus during Christmas and February recesses. And they are hounded to go out in field circus to exploit Thanksgiving recess--having to do field circus on Thanksgiving Day. Notably, I have seen them skipping school on Halloween so they could do field circus.
A corollary to this is that they are admonished to not have toys. Parents are told that, if children don't have toys, they will not have any reason not to stay out in field circus all day. Give them something to play with, they will want to go back in from field circus. And they will not want to attend the boasting session if they are playing with toys instead (or doing homework, which is usually less a drudgery than preparing for or attending a boasting session or going in field circus). I have seen the evidence of this too many times--when I was studying, I saw the inside of the then lead hounder's place. He had 2 kids, at the time around 8 and 12. And not a toy to be seen--children that age never put everything away perfectly (they always leave something out). Not even a TV or radio. Just expensive looking bookcases with washtowel littera-trash on it, nothing else.
One of these days, the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger is bound to codify this. "Parents--Are You Really Encouraging Your Children to Do More In the Ministry?" If your children have toys, they are disinclined to want to serve Jehovah. By keeping their lives spartan at home, you are encouraging them to stay out in service longer by giving them fewer distractions. Crap like this is likely to be part of a Kool-Aid Washtowel or placed in a Kingdumb Misery. And, the parents that fall for this smut are going to make sure their children lack toys. They will also lack reading material not from the Filthful and Disgraceful Slavebugger, music except for the 135 pieces of smut that pass for "music", computer access, TV, and virtually everything else that makes for fun. They are unlikely to even be able to take a walk in their own backyard, let alone visit a place like Palace Playland, Boston Museum of Science, or Six Flags. All to dull their lives so the boasting sessions and field circus, and the smut they are taught therein, are the most they are getting.
