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Originally Posted by ACuriousFellow
By that point, it was pretty much just me and one other brother who were fully dedicated. The lessons had also dwindled to full expositions of the stories of men such as Samuel and Daniel to little blurbs about how to be made into “good vessels” for the Lord. This new format no longer included wider stories and experiences from the bible, but just several songs (10-15 minutes) followed a brief little speaking by one of the teachers about this or that with perhaps a few comments from the little ones (5-ish minutes) and the introduction of a single “memory verse” (about a minute or two, usually).
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ACF - Pretty much like you described I became quite disappointed with how we were being led to work with children during the LC meetings. At one point a sister who had just returned from a Middle Aged Training in Anaheim gave me some material related to the children's work which both shocked and confused me. It contained a lot of what I considered to be good advice on how to meet the needs of the children but it also contained references to many rebukes and admonitions from Witness Lee which I had never heard about. Here is a
link to that document (the highlighting is mine).
Around the same time-frame (2006-2007) I also discovered some huge black 3-ring binders in a meeting hall storage room which contained what seemed to be a really solidly laid out curriculum for children's work from the 1980s. Link to some of it
here. And a great deal of the material was directed toward the parents and how they should handle their children at home - link
here.
When I tried to bring both of these promising looking resources to the attention of the leading brothers they were un-interested, and simply wanted us to keep doing what we had been doing (maintain the status quo). This was just one more reason that I chose to walk away from the LC after giving it 35 years of my life. There was no meaningful training for married couples and parenting - and what was being done to care for the children during meetings was grossly inadequate in my mind.
P.S.