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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Geez, the OP never said anything anti-family, anti-special needs, etc etc. Also, this is the Religion forum. Also, annoying kids ARE distracting. How about all of us parents just teach our kids to be more respectful when in church?! It's not cute when your kids are running around and being loud—anywhere for that matter, but especially in church! [/quote]

We attend a church with tons of kids, who mostly behave.

The exceptions are Easter and Christmas when a lot of people come home for the holidays.

One year, I sat behind a regular older couple whose children and grandkids filled a pew.  On the end was one of their millennial aged daughters with a preschool aged son.

The kid kept slipping out of the pew to play with a sign, including swinging on it.

Mom just smiled, laughed and encouraged him.

When someone sent him back to the pew, mom whipped out her phone, sent him back out again and started filming 8t while she laughed and smiled at him.

Finally, grandpa stepped out of the middle of the pew, picked up the kid, and carried him back to hold him on his lap the rest of the service.  Surprisingly, the child behaved like most kids his age for the remaining 30 minutes (some movement and noise, but not anything like mom was allowing).

There is a difference between normal, toddler or preschool behavior (crying, asking perpetual questions, crying, etc) and things like kids wrestling in the Communion line or this kid whose mom was encouraging the bad behavior so she could post it to facebook.

One is children being children, and we should be welcoming to that happening because it means families are at church with us and the church is growing.

The other is poor parenting and is frustrating and disruptive. 
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