Is it *Really* ok to let my toddler walk around in Sunday School and Relief Society? Everyone says, "Oh she's fine" and she mostly stays quiet while she roams, definitely quieter than she would be if I had to confine her to my lap or next to me, but she can be distracting even still. Even worse is when she finds the other babies that have toys to steal, she is the most mobile baby of all the little babies and she can get into more mischief and cause more injuries and tears to the other babies than they can to her (she's a bully).
So what do I do? Continue to let her have her way around the classroom?
Confine her until she has to be taken out? Thus leaving me with no religious education on Sunday?
Continue to spend time in nursery where they know us even though the sight of babies causes wigglies?
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I say let her roam. We let Mason till he went to nursery.
This baby screams like a banshee. She let loose with one during the youth choir's number in sacrament meeting which was so loud that the conducting member of the bishopric said afterward, from the pulpit, "I think I heard a piccolo part to that song, but I won't mention who was playing it."
I've never heard a baby's screams actually acknowledged from the pulpit before.
let her do it. Especially if the lesson isn't interesting and people need something to pay attention to.
In all serriousness, everyone understands that 1) you need spiritual fulfillment that might not happen if you're in the hall, 2) kids don't go to nursery until they are old enough- so it's really not your fault and 3)kids will be kids.
I'm with Bryce here. Discipline is best learned early.
It's at the most painful point right now, but will pay hefty dividends during the teenage years.
I'm not advocating punishment. She doesn't understand anything yet. Just try to reinforce good, reverent behavior with positive feedback and don't allow too much disruptive behavior. Over time she will learn what is appropriate.
It would probably help if her daddy was more reverent, as a good example.
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