This week we talked about the issue of loud children in public. We talked about a church in York,

Pennsylvania that was getting a lot of getting some good press because they posted a loud

children policy where they were inviting families to bring their loud children to church

and saying that all children are welcome and all this sort of thing. This is supposed to be heartwarming. I said I'm actually against it. I talked about it on the show. I'll show you what I posted on X. I said, I don't love it. I'm actually considerably less tolerant of loud kids in public now than I was before. I had my own. Your children should not be allowed to disrupt a church service or any other public gathering. If they're being unruly, remove them. If they're old enough to know better, take them out and discipline them. If they're too young to control themselves, then again, remove them. I've had to do this many times and many situations. It blows my mind when parents just sit there and let their kids totally disrupt and irritate an entire room full of strangers. A lot of comments, a lot of conversation around this point, and I'll read some of the

comments now. This comes from Matthew Cordes, who says, oof. You've already lost me, Matthew.

You've already lost me as a grown man typing the word oof.

Think about what you're doing.

You're a grown man typing the word, not even oof, but OOF.

So oof.

You're typing the word oof as a grown man.

That's problem number one.

Problem number two is the rest of this.

Should your children be obedient and well-behaved? Yes, as much as possible. There's a difference between being unruly and making a little noise. If you have children, you know that under a

certain age, different for each child, they do not have any recognition of appropriate noise level.

There are two unmistakable sounds that signify a healthy church.

One, crying babies as they represent new life and families.

Two, singing men as they represent joyful and loving leadership and not stodgy piety.

Bring your sometimes noisy kids to church. Help them learn to participate

in the service appropriately, but don't be ashamed when they act like kids. This is one of those

things people do where I say something and then they react like they totally disagree, but then you

read what they're saying or you listen to it and they're basically agreeing with you.

Should your children be obedient and well behaved? Yes, as much as possible. That's kind of what I'm saying.

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