The whole religion is very poor for children. The material is dull even for adults, let alone for children that naturally have to learn. I can remember when I was at an a$$embly and I was watching one particularly intelligent and active child (who was about 20 months at the time), and I was very lenient. I recognized that children that age needed to explore and learn, so I sacrificed the 20 minutes or so to allow for this. Later, when another witless took that child, they had zero tolerance for that kind of exploration. Standing still in the lunch line after sitting still for 3 hours during the program was too much.
This is normal for all boasting sessions. Children that are very intelligent are often into everything, and I would provide for this obviously intelligent baby. Getting into things was normal, and I let that child explore my pockets and meeting bag, even hiding little goodies to encourage it. I also had a calculator for those children to play with, even though they were too young to fully understand how to use one the "proper" way.
Wouldn't you know, before long the hounders made a bunch of rules that were designed to prevent this. Here I am, doing something to make their lives a bit more tolerable at the Kingdumb Hell by providing drawing paper and colored pens. And, it wasn't their parents making the fuss against it (in fact, they were grateful that I had the tolerance of this kind of behavior and would reduce their misbehavior). It was the other hounders that made those rules. And now I hope all those children remember that experience, and have turned apostate (I hope one or more of them ends up on this or another apostate board).
More common, has anyone observed the meetings that don't end on school nights until after 10 PM? Usually, it is the Thursday night meeting. Notably, many schools have those unit tests on Fridays. Not quizzes, mind you, but tests. Most of the grade is coming from this. And they are going to be tired going into those unit tests, ensuring that they are going to do poorly on them. Yet, parents are not allowed to keep their children out for Satan's unit tests, or they will be getting a call from Brother Hounder. And, this can run later than that. I have seen many a hounder-hounder talk that has lasted until almost 11 PM, on a school night at that. To me, that is almost as abusive as having to sit still for 2 hours, because if they flunk a unit test, they will do poorly elsewhere because they will get a poor grade.
