Parents - Save Your Children From JW Programming!

Many parents who are in custody battles with Jehovah’s Witnesses often feel they are in a losing battle. Jehovah’s Witnesses have a litany of materials to manipulate the minds of your children to live in fear and someday turn against you.

There is the “Caleb and Sofia Videos,” which are in a Toy Story-type cartoon, designed to make your children live in fear of displeasing Jehovah, who is watching them all the time. Next, there are books designed for children like, “My Book of Bible Stories,” “Listening to the Great Teacher,” along with numerous video programs to reinforce the belief that the world is possibly going to end next week and if you are not a JW, you will certainly die at God’s wrath. That means you, as a non-member parent.

Children often experience panic attacks, wet the bed, and have night terrors that are programmed into their little brains to make them live in fear. This intimidation forces them to become a member of Jehovah’s Witnesses or die at Armageddon.

The question is, how can you, as a non-member of Jehovah’s Witnesses, help your little one not live in fear and see life from a larger picture? The answer is in two simple words, “normal” and “abnormal.” What is the definition of those two words? 

Being normal is regular, typical, natural, meaning being of the sort or kind that is expected as usual, ordinary, or stable.

And

What does it mean if someone is abnormal? Behavior is considered to be atypical or out of the ordinary, consists of undesirable behavior, and results in impairment in the individual's functioning. As applied to humans, abnormality may also encompass deviance, which refers to behavior that is considered to transgress social norms.

Jehovah’s Witnesses fall into which definition?

They are definitely abnormal. JWs reject everyone outside the religion as part of “Satan’s World” and thus “bad association”. Do not celebrate holidays, or birthdays, are fearful of the end of the world with any disaster, believe they are imperfect and if not controlled, will do bad things, live double lives to avoid punishments, feel they are never good enough, are socially repressed, avoid medical treatments that could save their lives.

Does that seem normal to you?

Now, how do you convey that to your children? While you do not say it directly to your kids, you help them to see a picture and understand the difference between the two behaviors. Normal people are happy, have fun, do fun things, are not afraid, love to laugh, have parties, get presents, do not talk bad about others, are not afraid of police, believe in freedom to be yourself, do not lie or keep secrets, do not manipulate innocent people, trust each other, etc.. Explain to your child how these things apply to everyday life.

Then, explain the abnormal. People who live in fear bad things are gong to happen, people that keep secrets, people that tell lies on other people, people that are afraid of the police, avoid parties, don’t want you to have presents, who avoid playing with others, tell you all the time what you cannot do, tell you not to trust your family, do boring things all the time, are afraid that God is going to kill them or others, manipulate people to do abnormal things, hiding your feelings, say that people are bad, etc

Do you see how this can help your child to see a bigger picture?

I have often advised parents on this issue with dramatic results. Children start to identify the abnormal aspects of their lives in the JW world and start to see it as very abnormal, and something they do not enjoy. On the other hand, being normal is so much more fun. You can say how you really feel, enjoy life without fear, have many friends without feeling guilty, and most importantly, they see you as a person of trust, so that they can bear their true feelings without being made to feel bad or punished. With variations, this can easily be done with teenagers as well.

The next level is to ask them a question. What do you do when you are around abnormal people? What happens if you act normal around them? Abnormal people get very mad and upset that you are not abnormal. So if you want to keep them from being mad at you, all you have to do is act abnormal when you are around them to keep them happy. When you are around normal people, you can just be yourself and relax. Yes, your children have to be taught to live a double life, but in a positive way that helps them to feel in control of the situation.

A non-JW mother decided to make a poster board to help her four-year-old learn the difference. See the example below:

Normal/Abnormal

It is easy to find most of these images by simply googling “Jehovah’s Witnesses Armageddon” or including “police,” “bunker,” etc, to obtain their images of being abnormal.

Frankly, this is the elephant in the room that many have missed and then allowed the JWs to use their materials like bullets to shoot you down as a bad person. Why not show who the real ones with abnormal behaviors are? Help your kids understand that “normal” is true freedom to live a happy life, without fear of being intimidated or manipulated.

Mom, Dad, grandparents, you are in a fight to save a normal life for your offspring. Jehovah’s Witnesses abnormally believe you are an “agent of Satan” seeking to destroy their salvation. They are at war with you from day one with only one purpose: to destroy you as the enemy, cut you out of your kids’ lives, and make them zombies for JWorg. That is the only objective for them in order to please Jehovah. Is that normal to you?

You can do this.

When you start seeing their eyes light up as they clearly identify what is abnormal and how happy they are to understand and know they can be normal, they are normal, or they can learn to be normal. You can change their lives to not live in fear.

Living a normal life is not always easy, it is not always perfect, but it is ten thousand times better than living an abnormal life in fear.