Kids in sacrament meeting

Excerpted from a long discussion of kids’ behavior in church, and why we believe it’s important to keep kids in sacrament meeting instead of corraling them in a separate nursery. I couldn’t have said it better myself:

I think it is helpful to share methods that have helped with children in church, but it is also helpful for parents to know that it’s normal for kids to struggle with spending more than an hour sitting quietly in a meeting that they don’t understand and even adults can find boring at times and also normal for their parents to struggle with what that does to their ability to enjoy a peaceful and spiritual sacrament meeting. You notice that when Jesus was having all the children come unto him, he was not in sacrament meeting, or even in chapel, and he still had to use the word suffer.