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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would be okay with leaving my child with a strange church nursery -- but I would be very upset by a church member telling me my child is not welcome at a service.

There may be some churches that prefer to exclude babies and children from a service.  Those are not the type of church I would want to attend.  If someone told me that, I would contact the pastor/priest and tell them about it, letting them know how unwelcome I felt at such a place.[/quote]

Even as a one time visitor?[/quote]

[b]One time visitor or not, wouldn't there eventually have to be a first time you left DC in the nursery?  And you/he wouldn't necessarily know the people in charge since it would likely be a rotating set of volunteers?[/quote][/b]

This.  Wouldn't everyone's first time at church with their child be the first time they are leaving them in a "strange" church nursery?  Everyone does it at one point or another that is a regular.  So I don't really see the problem.[/quote]

Wow, the last 2 posters really surprise me!  NP to this thread, and frankly NO WAY do I leave my child - of any age! - with staff of a church where everyone is a stranger.  We went to a few churches when we moved to DMV, our child was 3-4 while we were checking places out.  Because she was young and restless, DH and I would take turns, one of us in the child care/nursery/youth group with DD, the other checking out the service.  Then we'd switch, and if we liked the church, we'd switch which parts we each went to.  But while one was in the service, the other was getting to know the child care staff or volunteers, the routines, the environment... all of that.

NO WAY would we show up once and leave our child with strangers.  And if we were usually allowed to bring our child into service, we'd still go check out childcare/youth program to see if that's a good fit too, because yes, eventually we want to be able to be comfy sending her there without staying ourselves.  We only get that comfort by checking it out several times first.[/quote]

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