Today was my brother's indoctrination into beginning a teacher. But my parents are making me attend so I can be supportive. However, my brother and I are both sitting in our pews with our fingers in our ears trying to silence the noise from other peoples kids. My question to regular posters is twofold:how do you put up with crying whining screaming youngsters and why does the new church buidings not contain a cry room? And a second question: how does the bishop not lose his hearing? Then again, he's probably so old he can't hear then anyway.

They don't have cry rooms because they are cheap. Everything about a ward building is stark, and utilitarian. No frills of any kind. Nothing to make life easier.

they do too have crying rooms..it's called the mother's lounge. I hate other people's kids. Especially the screamy ones.

WiFi was down for F and T meeting this morning. Nearly unbearable. Luckily, it came back on during the second half and I was able to surf my way through the meeting.

Bored and unhappy children have a tendency to cry and fuss. There's a Sunday lesson right there.

bingo//

I am a nevermo and when I first heard there is no place for LDS parents to take a crying, fussy child I could not believe it. At my church we stare people down if the crying and fussiness last more than two min. We don't put up with it. They get the message and out the kid goes. I do NOT go to any church where babies and fussiness annoy me as I try to get something out of the message and enjoy the singing, etc. You all should walk out with your entire families and then I bet they would do something. And if they still don't it is a great reason to never go back.



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The church is so proud that there is a 70-minute meeting that you can attend with the whole family! Why would you want to separate them do to a crying child? ;)

Parents in TSCC have this crazy idea that is somehow beneficial to force their young children through an extremely long meeting, thus not wanting to take crying children out. Somehow forcing a two year old to sit through the meeting will make them more spiritual.

I had to attend a sacrament meeting awhile back because of a family thing. I went with a never-mo who became just about apoplectic and beside himself because of all the crying, kids running up and down the aisles, people playing games on their cell phones, people coming in and out of the meeting, nobody paying any attention to the speaker. My friend was barely able to wait until the car was out of the the chapel's parking lot (he explained later that he didn't want to swear on the property of a church, but that he thought he could now make an exception for the Morg) to say to me, "WTF was that?!!"

My never-mo friend had grown up in the morridor and attended a protestant church. He never seen anything like a Mo sacrament meeting. He wouldn't have believed it if he hadn't seen it for himself.

I also heard some TBM from cache valley on "wait wait don't tell me" one morning. She won something and made a comment about how she had time to do crossword puzzles and get good at these sorts of quizzes during church. There was this embarrassed silence from the show's host, who then asked, "Don't the minister and the congregation notice and object?" and sister TBM said no and shrugged it off as if it were completely normal to do something else during church.