Well I was a tadpole when my parents read to me from the Paradise book which I think was released in 1958. That book was filled with lots and lots of negative - nay, violent - messages about Jehovah killing worldly people , including those affiliated with the churches of Christendom. Who can forget the double-page picture of the earth opening up at Armageddon swallowing all the wicked people, including children. Their eyes were depicted as bulging in fear. Shocking, hard-hitting stuff. Thank God my JW parents were loving in their approach to raising us. I remember the kindly, loving way they read to us. But I also know there were Witness parents who were not so loving in thrir bedtime story telling.
Now, say what you like about Caleb, but he's such a pussy in contrast to the stomach-churning characters
in the Paradise book. All big, doey eyed and innocent. We earlier generations of JW kids were made a much tougher stuff than the delicate Calebs and Sofias of today.