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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good grief, church and church members can be welcoming to families and children and still expect children to behave. There is no reason for a kid to be running up and down the aisles or yelling out during services (babies excluded from that of course). I went to family-heavy churches my whole life and never saw parents allow anything like that. Why do people hold their children to such a low standard of behavior?

And the person who said kids running around in church was the norm for eons needs to go back and revisit history. That is patently not true for the majority of white Christian denominations.[/quote]

This.  The occasional babbling of a happy baby or undertone of a parent hushing a wiggly child is totally fine and normal and welcomed.  Anyone, no matter their age, who is loud and disruptive enough to truly interfere with others' ability to worship should step out until things are under control.  Tantruming child can be taken to the narthex until they have settled and then lovingly return to the service. People should mute their cell phones, and if they must answer a vibrating phone, take the conversation out of the sanctuary. Child running up and down the aisles is inappropriate, period.

Common courtesy and common sense.[/quote]

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