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re: Appropriate amount of toys for kids to have in church?

Posted on 6/22/26 at 3:23 pm to
Posted by CatfishJohn
Member since Jun 2020
20872 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 3:23 pm to
Gave our kids a blank notepad and a couple markers. They could draw for hours at that age.

Posted by DeltaTigerDelta
Member since Jan 2017
14061 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 3:29 pm to
Any kid that needs to be preoccupied should be plied with Benadryl about half an hour before the service.
Posted by Snipe
Member since Nov 2015
16880 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 3:33 pm to
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I give mine a pen and a hymnal.


So it's you!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by ILurkThereforeIAm
In the Shadows, Behind Hedges
Member since Aug 2020
859 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 3:35 pm to
Up unti my son was about 5, I would let him bring one quiet toy into church.

That stopped when I saw his spiderman action figure putting the envelope in the collections basket.
Posted by Snipe
Member since Nov 2015
16880 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 3:36 pm to
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Parents gave no fricks


Jesus didn't either.

He scolded the apostilles for trying to turn the children away and keep them away from the teachings Jesus was giving.

It used to bother me too, but now I barely even notice it.
Posted by Dixie2023
Member since Mar 2023
5428 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 6:21 pm to
Coloring book or drawing paper and crayons.
Posted by Willie Stroker
Member since Sep 2008
16779 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 6:26 pm to
Zero.

All 3 of my sons had zero toys in church to teach them church was not a play area.

Other parishioners often complemented us on our well behaved kids.
Posted by baseballmind1212
Missouri City
Member since Feb 2011
3410 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 6:32 pm to
I have 3 kids in church at 8am every Sunday.

We bring a bag with a few different coloring books, a stuffed animal or two, and some baby toys for the 18 month old.

The hot wheels track is over the top.

I get more pissed about the adult couples with no kids that show up routinely 20 minutes late and then get mad when I don't squeeze my family of 5 into 3 arse cheeks worth of space.

If I can wake up early enough to feed, clothe, and load up 3 kids, you can roll out of bed, put your slides on and show up on time.

Don't even get me started with the mfers that roll out the door straight from the communion line...
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
134785 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 6:34 pm to
I wheel a stand up arcade box of NBA Jam for little Jaxxxon and Myxleigh to play after we visit the reverse ATM, but I put it on low volume. I'm not a monster
Posted by real turf fan
East Tennessee
Member since Dec 2016
12022 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 7:35 pm to
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Posted by Ingeniero
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2013
23264 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 7:42 pm to
We bring a snack and 2 or 3 quiet toys (so nothing loud or electronic) for ours. Our church has no cry room so it's baby central in there on Sundays. I've completely tuned out other people's kids at this point. It's just background noise to me. We sit towards the back and take him outside if he's getting too noisy.
Posted by Bacon84
Texas
Member since Oct 2012
2153 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 7:45 pm to
My kids are currently 5, and 8.

At about 3, no more toys in church.
Before that, a car or something relatively small, and quiet. By the time they started pre-k at 4… no more toys.

My son currently 5 still has some trouble sitting still. But, he isn’t going to make noise and bother everyone around us.
Posted by Powerman
Member since Jan 2004
174705 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 7:47 pm to
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3-4ish year old kid in front of me proceeds to set up full hot wheels set with loop, wind up car and send that thing flying into the aisle

I'd like to believe this didn't happen
Posted by Boudreauboudreaugoly
Land of the Rice n Son
Member since Oct 2017
3073 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 7:57 pm to
The only toy I had in church to keep me in line was my dad’s knuckle to my head.
Posted by Taliboudin
SWLA
Member since May 2026
8 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 10:25 pm to
Sounds very protestant
Posted by LemmyLives
Texas
Member since Mar 2019
16732 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 10:33 pm to
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ut I would suggest the answer is zero or go to the nursery. If you wouldn't do it at a movie theater, n


shite, when my kids were under 10, the synagogue took us straight to the nursery, even though my kids understand how to STFU and be patient. They're fine sitting through a service.

You are supposed to consider those in your community, and your iPad retard kids should not be allowed to disrupt the worship of everyone else in your church because you didn't teach them manners.
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wouldn't do it at a movie theater,

You haven't been to a theater in a while, have you?
Posted by SuperSaint
Sorting Out OT BS Since '2007'
Member since Sep 2007
150835 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 10:41 pm to
Mine are 5, 3, and 1. All three know they can catch an arse whooping if they knuckleheads.

My church doesn’t have a trashy ‘cry room’.
Posted by AUJACK
Member since Sep 2020
1446 posts
Posted on 6/22/26 at 11:21 pm to
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When I was a kid the answer was exactly zero.


This is the answer. I remember a lot of "your are going to get an arse whoopin" looks from my parents during church. Sometimes I did get an arse whoopin.

I would have certainly would not have taken a hot wheels track to a place or event where an arse whoopin might be needed. That track was the ultimate tool for bad arse whoopins.
This post was edited on 6/22/26 at 11:33 pm
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
73061 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 12:06 am to
The Hot Wheels loop is completely unnecessary, as the kid could've just run the Hot Wheels car across a person's head and shoulders in the pew in front.
Posted by cypresstiger
The South
Member since Aug 2008
14215 posts
Posted on 6/23/26 at 6:34 am to
Zero
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