do you take your lo to church?

Ive taken e to church a total of 3 times,my mum has taken him to hers twice. Unfortunately the one thing e seems fearful of is old people,and our church is typically full of old people! My h also only gets a Sunday off each week and very little holiday (self employed) so doesn't want to spend his one morning off each week at church. I would like e to go more regularly though,but the church toddler service is on the day I work.

Me and H don't go to church except at Christmas but C goes with my parents whenever he stays there on a Saturday night.

we used to go every week, the morning service is with children so people that get annoyed can go to the later service, now on my own icant handle the 2 children on my own, spoke to priest about it and said i will not be coming for a while but plan to go back, especially we want the kids to go to catholic school

 

it is sometimes a pain on sunday morning but now i am on my own i dont mind as everyday is like a sunday

We go most weeks. I run the creche for under 3s with a friend so we take it in turns each week to be on creche duty.  The first Sunday of each month is an all-age service which is geared towards children so Isaac is always in church for that.  We have lots of young families in the congregation though as well as old people so he has lots of friends there.

That sounds lovely memi, I wish we had something like that here. We're in a small rural village, mainly pensioners,or at least it feels that way,so nothing like that at ours!

Memi:

We go most weeks. I run the creche for under 3s with a friend so we take it in turns each week to be on creche duty.  The first Sunday of each month is an all-age service which is geared towards children so Isaac is always in church for that.  We have lots of young families in the congregation though as well as old people so he has lots of friends there.

Our church has the same thing - creche every week and all-age first Sunday of the month. We go to the all-age service every month (just started this year). I'm not a church-goer but the girls were baptised so I'm taking them so they can make their own choices later in life.

We take our two most weeks. When I was working on a Sunday H and I might go to different services and poor A would end up going twice!

we do go but not as often as we used to, maybe only once a month now.  there isnt a family mass or a creche or anything.  and we have to sit at the back as L tends to kick off.  although he does tend to dance when we are singing hymns which he loves.

its mostly older people who goe to our church too, maybe the odd family but there isnt a lot of babies at any of the masses

xxc

We did intend to go every week and we did at one point when G was tiny. However, it is difficult keeping her still now and stopping her from causing chaos.

We do - we were regular churchgoers before he was born, and now he just comes with us. Probably 3 weeks in 4 - my H is a bellringer, so we're generally there for a long morning!

It's harder now than when he was small - he wants to crawl around the pews / knock over the flowers / grab the communion wine (!) but we've got a lovely children's corner with toys and books, and once he's 3 he'll go to Sunday School. There are always the odd people who tut when he's making himself heard, but on the whole our congregation are really lovely.

Strangely, it's the one place where he's quiet when I ask to be. And he loves the stained glass!

I do, not every week but when we're not doing anything else and unless H's not seen much of F that weekend as we are out for a good couple of hours and he doesn't come. It's a very family orientated service with a pre school group. We take it in turns to lead doing a version of what the older children do, their group is without parents and led through a rota. We're in the main Mass then for about half an hour, which with hymns to dance to, going up to communion and shaking hands at the sign of peace is a short enough time for F to deal with, and if she's struggling I always have a snack available. We sit in the same area as the other toddlers at the side of Church and noone minds a bit of wandering around in that area.

She's not christened and we don't know yet if we'll send her to the Catholic schools but H knows it's important to me as I was brought up Catholic and he's happy for me to take her along then she's informed and can decide as she's older. He went with his parents as a child and is glad he did even though he chooses not to now. I'm equally happy for her to go to his parents Church when she's older with them to give her a broader view

We take him but only to selected services as he's fascinated by the echo, claps after every hymn, and at MILs funeral gave everyone a quick blast of Old MacDonald. You have to pick your battles I think and church shouldn't be one of them.

I'd like to, but D is way too high-maintenance for me to cope with him in church. I get hideously embarrassed when he's noisy or hard to control in public and church would be worse. I take him to all the festival services (Easter, Christmas, etc) but not to regular services.

Matilda and I go most weeks, she definitely goes when Mum is looking after her. Today she was mainly dancing up and down the rows but no one seems to care. The oldies love her. I usually take a colouring book and pencils and she'll sit and draw. That said, the vicar is wonderful and really gets the kids involved, there are usually instruments about etc. Try him again, he'll get used to the people there, I am sure.

because Eleanor is so disruptive and we've just moved so new church I'm warming up with just going to the family services.  They're really vibrant and totally accommodating of rampaging 2 year olds and feeding babies.  Mr s comes with me as there's no way i could do Eleanor duty, enjoy the service and keep Lucy happy at the same time!