My wife, who is intent on re-activating herself as a dub since I DA'd myself, went to the convention this past weekend. She showed me this new publication entitled "Learn From The Great Teacher", and placed great emphasis on these two pages I scanned and am posting. It makes a poor show of telling children what to do when confronted by a child abuser. While there are a few good tips, it's not nearly enough. They are advised to say that they will 'tell on them'(the abuser), but no mention is made of who they should go to, or what protection they will receive. And the illustration of the little girl warding off a sexual predator is ridiculous. It rarely, if ever, is that simple. In my opinion this is a cop out. Maybe they added this little blurb just so they can prove to the courts (during lawsuits), or adherents that they are addressing the issue. But in my opinion, it's far too little, far too late.

Walter

 

 

People are reading this to their YOUNG children? Man.

GRRRRR!!!!!  Bastards!

~Aztec

For what ages is this book targeted?

The very first paragraph is so sick---for children of any age. What is wrong with these people?  (I can imagine that whoever was doing the overkill on mentioning the sexual organs was getting off on it.)

They are worse than ever.

 

Sick lying bastards.

Pardon my English.

I'm not even one of those poor people on this board who was molested and had the thing covered up; think of how they feel about this crap.

You are right on the money Lisa.

Thanks for that insightful post.

Bonezz,

You are on the mark! Even worse the account tells later of lot sleeping with his daughters!

God this is silly! Well actually it is very dangerous to expose your young child to. Ugh!

Greven

Man, where do I start?  This is even worse than the chapter on masturbation in the old "Youth" book.

Oh, that's just great -- let some poor little kid who has been abused read that and hear the words "bad" and "wrong" associated with THEM and not with the abuser.  And that last statement is a very definite one:  "They also begin to use their sex organs in a wrong way" -- not, they MIGHT or they MAY -- so everything they do now, from going to the bathroom to showering, is WRONG and BAD.

God damn them all.

Nina

I was so stunned by the text that I overlooked the obvious point--your wife thought this stuff was good???

So let me get this straight.  If the Watchtower does nothing to educate and protect children, you criticize, if they publish straight-forward advice like this book to help children and parents, then you also criticize.   Does anything satisfy you people?   This book will help open a channel of communication between parent and child.  I know you all think that you are the best parents in the world, but the truth is, that most parents do not discuss these private matters with their children.  They allow the schools or their classmates educate them.  Of course they are misinformed.   It IS the parents responsability to warn their children about these sexual predators.  The Watchtower are helping the parents do this.    I'm sure since you all are the wisest people in the world , that you have a better idea of how to educate parents and how to talk to your children, but this books helps the other millions of parents that don't.