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I remember going to church and I'd be bored just by hearing the priest talk. I remember hearing little kids running around and making noise. My church handed out these clipboards with crayons and a coloring page attached to it to keep the young ones busy. It made it convenient for everyone because it kept them settled so everyone was able to enjoy their time and not listen to little kids make noise and run around.

I can remember acting goody a few times when I was seven because I was bored so I would be teasing my mother. One time I placed a bible on her chair while she was standing and I laughed when she sat on it.

I loathed going to church and often weaseled out of it by getting my friends to organize things on sunday so I wouldn't have to go.
we didn't keep going after I was 9, when I was 15 I became a pagan so now I absolutely refuse

I think some of the above posts make a good point, in that if what you are trying to do is to help a child grow faith, you are probably better off skipping church with the child than allowing him to have a negative experience. It's something a parent should consider. As I was reading those posts, I was trying to decide how our "requiring" the kids to go at this point may be playing out in their minds, and I think it's OK - positive to neutral, fortunately not hateful.

There is another consideration, and that is for the parents to be able to attend. I enjoy going as a family. I want to go, and I want my children to share it with me. When we couldn't bring them to church, we simply never went. That was negative for my husband and me, so we investigated and found a situation that would work better.

In a family, you are always looking at the needs of ALL members, and that does include mom and dad.

I am taking my AS son to church for the simple fact that they have pre-kindergarten sunday school which I hope will encourage him to interact with his 'peers'. As his new autistic school only has 2-3 children in his class. But already he is having trouble 'following' his peers, and goes on his eye stimming runs during class.

I stopped taking my son to church while he was still in the nursery room. He had behavior problems even in there.

However, he's 10 now and he loves the Bible so much. He wants to read it everyday and he wants other people to go to church. He knows he would have trouble sitting through it himself, but I told him we will try it again. We'll sit in the back row and leave if he has any problems. I don't care what people think if we have to walk out during the sermon.

I won't put him in Sunday school though. He has too many problems with NT kids and I know it wouldn't work out at all. If there was an autism/aspie sunday school, that would be perfect for him because he hasn't had any problems with likeminded children.

That was a good article. Thanks for posting it.

We're going to try church on Sunday. I'm keeping him with me and not letting him go into the children's church. We're sitting in the back row and leaving if he can't stand it. I think he might enjoy the music portion of the service...but, I hope it's not too loud.

I have seen in the paper that some churches in my area have special services for families with special needs children.

Maybe there's one in your area, or perhaps suggesting that sometimes the service in your church be more wiggly, squirmy, squeeky child friendly? If there's more than one service on Sunday, maybe one could be the "more tolerant of the not yet socially organized?" That sounds bad, but I hope you know what I mean.

Doesn't hurt to keep talking with people about it. Maybe others are thinking the same thing.

Metta.