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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up going with my grandmother, and we all learned to behave without issues.  I remember my brother sitting on her lap and she’d split her attention between him and the first half of the service. We’d be called forward for children’s time (short, kid-framed version of the sermon), then kids went downstairs for junior church (talking over the message and reviewing by doing an activity based on the message, sermon on loudspeaker was ignored) and came back up for the benediction hymn.  I think we went downstairs from age 4-8?  Boggled my mind when I saw a visiting middle school boy go up front, then downstairs, but her already been laughing at a video on a phone and generally being a nuisance.  That church always provided crayons and paper, and they had a hall tree with quiet bags labeled with gender/age with extra coloring supplies and two toys.

I’m a huge fan of kids being taught manners, including that there are times that it’s inappropriate to be loud.  I was taught that you don’t interrupt other people or try to purposefully distract.  Both are behaviors I’m seeing more often in church, and both are being excused because people are afraid to ask parents to help their children learn.[/quote]

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