Sunday Morning Routine // Helping Young Children Sit Through Church

Today we are going to be sharing with you how we prepare and train our children to sit in church with us for a full 90 minute church service every Sunday. Conviction might be too strong of a word, but we would say it’s a conviction that we have when it comes to worshipping together as a family with the corporate body. It is way worth it to us to go through the extra steps and hassle to sit all together and worship the Lord as a family when we go to church on Sunday.

A good Sunday morning starts the week before on Sunday night! When we have our family evening routines, it is so crucial that we’ve designated time to be together as a family every evening sitting down and reading together. We’re always reading some sort of book, and almost always incorporating some type of singing as a family too. What we’ve found ourselves doing more and more is that we sit on the couch aligned how we would be sitting in our row at church. This really helps us set the expectation for the kids that this is normal. We sit like this all week long that when it comes to our row at church, they know right where to go.

It’s such a cool privilege, great opportunity and responsibility as a parent to be able to set this tone and create an appetite for our children that looks forward to worshipping together. There should be celebration in that! It does require some self-control, but the last thing we want for our kids when they’re growing up, is to have this association with the Lord’s day as being something that is negative.

This is not something that we expect perfection from our kids. They are children. They lose the context of where they are at and if they want the red crayon from their sibling and their sibling is not giving it to them, they will make a scene if we don’t get on it really quickly. Anything of value is going to require work. The value that we see in this is so great. The work that we do does not seem laborious by any means. It’s a training opportunity. We really embrace it as an opportunity to teach our children how to behave in public, sit still, control their bodies, to focus and value what we value which is Christ and what He’s done for us!

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Timestamps:
00:00-1:46 - Intro
1:46-7:46 - How to prepare during the week
7:46-9:02 - VMA discount code
9:02-14:06 - Working to help kids be engaged
14:06-15:33 - Parent’s role/kid’s expectations
15:33-17:49 - Sunday morning routine
17:49-19:48 - At church before service starts routine
19:28-22:29 - Type of church we attend
22:29-27:17 - Drawing/snacks/gum reward
27:17-29:13 - Establishing expectations/growing confidence
29:13-30:42 - Building endurance
30:42-31:48 - Sitting positions/closing