In Regina my mom had me
take part in a Christian group for kids. There were prizes to be won with that
group, but only (or at least mostly) if you brought along a friend. Even as a kid I didn’t feel quite right about
bringing along a friend to a church group for prizes. In fact, one of the few
times I did so the friend’s father got angry that he went with me (I don’t know
if they were atheists or different religion/different sect of Christianity but
I understand more clearly as an adult that the friend’s parents probably did
have different views on religion and that it wasn’t appropriate to bring him
along).
Luckily my mom, the
most religious person in the family agreed with my concerns and in fact managed
to get some of the prizes for me by complaining to the head of that group. Later a new session was starting and a new
woman showed up. We expressed our
concerns to her and she said that things were going to be different, no bring
along a friend business. So I went to the first part of the new sessions and at
the beginning one of the first things she said was “And bring along a
friend...” I never went back.
The whole thing seems
even more sinister as an adult even though I still have some Christian views.
Using kids to get other kids in in cases where adults might not easily be able
to access a particular family.
2 comments:
Wow. That's underhanded and creepy! Yikes!
Agreed. As mentioned in a previous blog post, the Kitimat library once gave kids helium balloons saying they wanted a new library (i.e. in a different location). Of course the kids are going to take the balloon no matter what is says. Kids shouldn't be used as pawns.
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