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

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"Let the children come to Me"

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With a full set of coloring books and crayons, hyped up on juice, full spread of snacks, and several toys to bang and throw, would have tested even Jesus' patience

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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.

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My mom had zero hesitation to drag us out and proceed to stripe our legs with a hickory switch if shenanigans were afoot.

But this was back when children were to be seen and not heard. It was a different, more civilized, age.

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one of my ears is still lopsided from all of the silent pinches my mom would give me in church

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I still remember my mom keeping a count of how many spankings I was gonna get when we got home if I acted up in church.

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supposed to consider those in your community,

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Overall these days it is disappointing how little people remember this. Be on time. Take your hat off at dinner. Don't curse in front of your mother. Put on a nice shirt to go out. Pull your garbage cans in the same day the man empties them. It shows respect to those around you.

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You haven't been to a theater in a while, have you?

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No heck no. I've been in 2020, 2014, and 2010 each in my adult life. I assume these days everybody is on their phone or talking loudly so not sure what the point is now. I would love to go watch something like Sicario or Thirteen Hours in a deserted theater with a couple friends and a six pack.

We used to play either tic-tac-toe or the dot game on the paper bulletins.

A full hot wheels track is insane & should be in the nursery

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None? Have you ever had a one year old?

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Have had 3 different 1 year olds and we’ve been successful with the no toys rule.
Allowed it 1 time with the middle child when they were 2, and it almost turned into an entire bag of toys the following week, so we went back to no toys.

Snacks & coloring books have been very successful for us. Our church also has a small book section the kids like the thumb through.

All kids/families/households are different, and we don’t judge those that bring toys…unless it’s a full blown hot wheel set or they need the entire pew for their layout.

What church is it?

When I was a kid my parents dumped me off in the nursery during church. I don't know if Protestants still have those.

My Catholic church has a cry room but it seems like very few mothers if any at all use it.

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NBA Jam f

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Does the priest get annoyed when he hears BOOMSHAKALAKA?

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When you indoctrinate kids - which is what religion does, all of them - you need to have any and all kinds of participation from the children. So let them have whatever they want. It's all about indoctrination, so why does it matter what they have?

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Very edgy