Here is a blog post by one of my good friends from junior high and high school. She is an elementary school teacher in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area and is currently working on a graduate degree in Christian education.
In her post, she tells us about the choices her first grade daughter had on Palm Sunday at their church services. Sitting in the church service, she noticed the change in mood in the music. First the music had an exciting feel as Jesus entered Jerusalem then the music got quieter and sadder. “The music has gotten quieter and sadder since we started. Is that because we read about Jesus dying?”
We often separate children from the ‘adult’ services because we think they can’t sit still and they won’t get it. The truth: They do get it; they get more than adults think do and sometimes get more than adults do.
There are good points to having children’s worships and adults worships, but there are times when we should worship as a family (as a church family) — more than only at special times of the year. We can learn from each other.
Children do "get it" http://bit.ly/9EDFyv // good job @brennap. check it out!