Comments on: How to get a child to stay in their seat in Church http://www.familyhelptree.com/blog/family/how-to-get-a-child-to-stay-in-their-seat-in-church/2007/07/23/ Parenting Help, Child Health, Family Tree Research Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:51:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: FamilyHelpTree http://www.familyhelptree.com/blog/family/how-to-get-a-child-to-stay-in-their-seat-in-church/2007/07/23/#comment-51 FamilyHelpTree Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:25:41 +0000 http://familyhelptree.com/blog/?p=56#comment-51 Religion provides a source of hope and happiness not routed in financial success or material posessions. A parent who truely loves their child tries to help them and if they think that church will help them then they will take them to church. Religion provides a source of hope and happiness not routed in financial success or material posessions. A parent who truely loves their child tries to help them and if they think that church will help them then they will take them to church.

]]> By: shutz http://www.familyhelptree.com/blog/family/how-to-get-a-child-to-stay-in-their-seat-in-church/2007/07/23/#comment-50 shutz Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:02:44 +0000 http://familyhelptree.com/blog/?p=56#comment-50 Or, you could NOT bring your child to church, and let the child grow up without getting a skewed world view, and let him or her learn about religion on their own terms, so they can choose the religion that makes the most sense to them (or choose no religion and become a well-balanced agnostic or atheist.) By letting your child come to their own decision, you show them that you trust them. It also forces them to eventually think about spirituality, instead of just gobbling up whatever's being force-fed by the one religion they're forcibly exposed to. Or, you could NOT bring your child to church, and let the child grow up without getting a skewed world view, and let him or her learn about religion on their own terms, so they can choose the religion that makes the most sense to them (or choose no religion and become a well-balanced agnostic or atheist.)

By letting your child come to their own decision, you show them that you trust them. It also forces them to eventually think about spirituality, instead of just gobbling up whatever’s being force-fed by the one religion they’re forcibly exposed to.

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