You are correct about training children. The only problem is that so many of us who are parents now spent our formative years in daycare. Makes it harder to know what can be expected from children.

Your today’s scenario is so accurate it would be funny if it wasn’t so true.

Yeah, R.C., Junior you have to take with a grain of salt. I have issues with the baby baptism and sprinkling typically done in Presbyterian churches, although much else appears to be sound. His dad is whom I prefer to listen to; he rarely mentions those more polarizing issues involving baptism.

Berean Wife

TODAY’S SCENARIO in the HOME
Dad is watching the game in the multimedia room, while MOM is doing overtime at the office, 15yrd old PRINCESS is in her room with her boyfriend ‘innocently’ watching the lastest horror flik (behind closed doors), Junior is traveling across the state for semi-finals in basketball!

BTW: Bound for Glory is by R.C. Jr
it has some good stuff if you can stomach reading about the “covenant child’ (blah)
blessings

We’ve been in churches before that any sound that a baby made was frowned upon. I’m always very careful to not allow mine to be disruptive, but that isn’t even acceptable with some churches. Often I would have trouble when my husband was teaching or otherwise serving and there I sat with a baby and several little ones. But we always managed somehow. My littlest has been sitting through long services for years. The typical sermon lasts over an hour but he is used to it and usually has no problems (often doing better than some adults ). Children will learn if the experience is regular enough.

Our family, like yours, does most everything together. We still need to work more on ministering to others in the home and ministering together as a family outside the home. While we do so, we tend to revert to the ingrained expectation of the church organizing much of the “ministry”. Years of training are hard to overcome at times.

Berean Wife