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Any tips for getting a 6 and 3 year old to make it through mass?

Older one is fine sometimes but the 3 year old wants to get ...
Fuchsia mad-dog skullcap sneaky criminal
  09/28/25
lol @ goyim. no 3 y/o sits thru shul. why would you expect t...
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
It’s usually slightly less than an hour. I feel l...
Fuchsia mad-dog skullcap sneaky criminal
  09/28/25
you're just gonna make them hate it and resent going -- if t...
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
I thought jews very deliberately put their kids in long bori...
thriller ticket booth
  09/28/25
you thought wrong. ortho jews are all about making judaism f...
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
Brother I read a parenting book by some kike that explicitly...
thriller ticket booth
  09/28/25
some jew writing a parenting book doesnt go to shul
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
you have to start with the indoctrination young or it won&rs...
transparent stage athletic conference
  09/28/25
Von den Jüden und iren Lügen
swollen affirmative action
  09/28/25
Three year old to the crying room. Six year old should be w...
swashbuckling fishy nursing home quadroon
  09/28/25
wtf is a crying room? is this some spaceporn thing?
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
(disgusting protestant)
Fluffy vivacious temple immigrant
  09/28/25
Obviously you're not a catholic.
swashbuckling fishy nursing home quadroon
  09/28/25
stfu jewbag
Dashing Set Psychic
  09/29/25
G-d doesn't exist. In this moment , I am euphoric.
Razzle Legal Warrant Degenerate
  09/28/25
They don't have child care set up somewhere in the building?...
Mahogany Spectacular Senate Friendly Grandma
  09/28/25
Doesnt your church have a glass bubble room where parents wi...
Appetizing Slimy Box Office Chad
  09/28/25
why do u goyim consider a 3yo unruly if he cant sit quiet fo...
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
(boorish black baptist)
Fluffy vivacious temple immigrant
  09/28/25
poor rc? there should be friendly play groups for kids. it s...
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
crap flame
Fluffy vivacious temple immigrant
  09/28/25
no wonder you goyim molest kids.
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
whereas you jews marry them
Appetizing Slimy Box Office Chad
  09/28/25
that's muslims, actually
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
arent you suppose to not be using electronic devices on Sund...
Appetizing Slimy Box Office Chad
  09/28/25
on the seventh day he rested -- saturday
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
We don't. That's why there is a crying room.
swashbuckling fishy nursing home quadroon
  09/28/25
why do u goyim use the name crying room as if there's someth...
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
its called that because its supposed to be for babies. you r...
plum fragrant chapel
  09/28/25
why isnt there a supervised children's play room for non-bab...
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
The whole point of Catholic mass is to show off your entire ...
swashbuckling fishy nursing home quadroon
  09/28/25
...
rose sick church
  09/28/25
Allow rent seeking doctors to drug them into a semi-lobotomi...
Razzle-dazzle school cafeteria
  09/28/25
do the sat evening mass or noon on sundays. Don’t do 9...
Dashing Set Psychic
  09/28/25
Cr. Or the youth mass at 5 p.m.
swashbuckling fishy nursing home quadroon
  09/28/25
is this a novus ordo mass? first of all, dont go to those ...
plum fragrant chapel
  09/28/25
Good luck finding TLM. You know who wants it gone.
stimulating shrine blood rage
  09/28/25
depends on location i guess. here theres fssp(4 sunday mass ...
plum fragrant chapel
  09/28/25
exorcism
Racy Trailer Park
  09/28/25
full submersion, repeated dunking, in boiling sierra mist un...
Racy Trailer Park
  09/28/25
benadryl
low-t bateful forum
  09/28/25
Feed them a healthy diet and they won’t be unruly.
rose sick church
  09/28/25
cr
free-loading kitty cat alpha
  09/28/25
(childless manchild who claims to subsist on steak, whiskey,...
Concupiscible property
  09/28/25
We used to keep our kid w us during service until it was cle...
saffron pit
  09/28/25
don't they have a set aside children's mass or something lik...
dull office
  09/28/25
LJL at friendless geek and autistic DBG lecturing others ITT
Insane Idiotic Dilemma
  09/28/25
i'm the only one on here who goes daily to a house of worshi...
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
Daily wtf that’s too much
saffron pit
  09/28/25
ur supposed to go 2x/day. i dont have time for that shir
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
(Sister Mary Josephine)
Appetizing Slimy Box Office Chad
  09/28/25
i dont get it. is this a goy joke?
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
religion is his whole identity. not because he's religious, ...
azure soul-stirring ladyboy
  09/28/25
3 year old is too young to be expected to sit through a full...
Vigorous dysfunction genital piercing
  09/28/25
religion is the opiate of the masses. lol @ believing in thi...
brilliant galvanic jap
  09/28/25
Try raising them in such a way that they're not controlled b...
free-loading kitty cat alpha
  09/28/25
Should probably sit this one out. I would not say this i...
saffron pit
  09/28/25
Whachu mean??
free-loading kitty cat alpha
  09/28/25
(guy whose kids chopped their peckers off due to impulses)
Concupiscible property
  09/28/25
somehow every church managed this just fine until about 20 y...
Pearl Crackhouse Headpube
  09/28/25
you come off as an unhinged virgin in every thread
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
I'm probably the only one in this thread who went to a norma...
Pearl Crackhouse Headpube
  09/28/25
interesting you dont deny being an unhinged virgin who will ...
exciting pontificating voyeur
  09/28/25
We go to family mass which is right before CCD class, so ful...
Concupiscible property
  09/28/25
We ended up going and it was mostly ok. Brought a coloring ...
Fuchsia mad-dog skullcap sneaky criminal
  09/29/25


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Date: September 28th, 2025 8:08 AM
Author: Fuchsia mad-dog skullcap sneaky criminal

Older one is fine sometimes but the 3 year old wants to get up and walk around and explore and the older one wants to do the same once one of us takes him to the back.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308677)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 8:11 AM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

lol @ goyim. no 3 y/o sits thru shul. why would you expect them to? they either stay home w/ the wife, or there are kids play groups. a 3 y/o cant sit quiet in a chair for a 2 hr religious service. wtf are u thinking.

even the 6yo has no business being in a religious service for more than 10 minutes of sitting you to practice behaving. you think he knows wtf is going on on a meaningful level?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308686)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 8:21 AM
Author: Fuchsia mad-dog skullcap sneaky criminal

It’s usually slightly less than an hour.

I feel like I’m supposed to take them? Should I not be taking them until they are older?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308704)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 8:23 AM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

you're just gonna make them hate it and resent going -- if they arent mature enough to sit there quietly for an hour long religious service. you're asking way too much of even the 6y/o, unless he's mature enough which most arent.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308709)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 10:10 AM
Author: thriller ticket booth

I thought jews very deliberately put their kids in long boring situations where they can’t go anywhere to build character or something

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308930)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 10:13 AM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

you thought wrong. ortho jews are all about making judaism fun for the little kids and getting them used to the environment -- then u get told later u need to study torah all day

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308938)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 12:22 PM
Author: thriller ticket booth

Brother I read a parenting book by some kike that explicitly said this. “The blessings of a skinned knee” iirc

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49309214)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 12:44 PM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

some jew writing a parenting book doesnt go to shul

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49309255)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 2:37 PM
Author: transparent stage athletic conference

you have to start with the indoctrination young or it won’t stick. you really think you’d believe in “yahweh” if your parents had trotted that shit out when you were 15 or something?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49309540)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 6:19 PM
Author: swollen affirmative action
Subject: Von den Jüden und iren Lügen

My church has ~2 hour Mass with children from 0-18 and most of them are well behaved. 6 year olds can definitely handle it with consistent parenting. They might play around in the pews a little, but whatever.

The Jew lies to separate your child from God and corrupt innocence.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310139)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 8:16 AM
Author: swashbuckling fishy nursing home quadroon

Three year old to the crying room. Six year old should be with Cheerios and Christ themed coloring books.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308695)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:10 AM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

wtf is a crying room? is this some spaceporn thing?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308792)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:11 AM
Author: Fluffy vivacious temple immigrant

(disgusting protestant)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308796)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 10:11 AM
Author: swashbuckling fishy nursing home quadroon

Obviously you're not a catholic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308934)



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Date: September 29th, 2025 4:21 PM
Author: Dashing Set Psychic

stfu jewbag

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49312295)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 8:18 AM
Author: Razzle Legal Warrant Degenerate

G-d doesn't exist. In this moment , I am euphoric.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308698)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:08 AM
Author: Mahogany Spectacular Senate Friendly Grandma

They don't have child care set up somewhere in the building? I thought everyone had that. What about Sunday school?

Anyway, our normal routine when we had young kids was Grandma and Grandpa go to early service, we drop the kids off to them in the parking lot, and then they keep them so we have a few hours of peace until we get together for an early dinner at 3 or 4.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308783)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:26 AM
Author: Appetizing Slimy Box Office Chad

Doesnt your church have a glass bubble room where parents with unruly kids can sit?

Please dont bring disruptive kids to church.

Why not have one parent do Saturday evening mass solo, and that one can stay home Sunday with 3yo. The rest of you can go to mass Sunday.

Otherwise, a promise of ice cream after church works wonders.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308843)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:32 AM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

why do u goyim consider a 3yo unruly if he cant sit quiet for an hour religious service? that's just a 3yo being a 3yo.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308857)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:33 AM
Author: Fluffy vivacious temple immigrant

(boorish black baptist)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308861)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:36 AM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

poor rc? there should be friendly play groups for kids. it shouldnt be some hellroom punishment for 3 yo's being 3 yo's

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308868)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:39 AM
Author: Fluffy vivacious temple immigrant

crap flame

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308875)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:40 AM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

no wonder you goyim molest kids.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308881)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:43 AM
Author: Appetizing Slimy Box Office Chad

whereas you jews marry them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308885)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 10:05 AM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

that's muslims, actually

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308924)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:36 AM
Author: Appetizing Slimy Box Office Chad

arent you suppose to not be using electronic devices on Sunday or something, jewboi? Go spin your menorah

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308865)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:37 AM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

on the seventh day he rested -- saturday

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308871)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 10:12 AM
Author: swashbuckling fishy nursing home quadroon

We don't. That's why there is a crying room.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308935)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 10:14 AM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

why do u goyim use the name crying room as if there's something wrong with the kids? crying room sounds like theyre having some major tantrum. why cant it just be the playroom

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308941)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 10:31 AM
Author: plum fragrant chapel

its called that because its supposed to be for babies. you really shouldnt be taking even a three year old in there unless theyre jealous that a younger sibling goes in there with mom or something

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308999)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 12:50 PM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

why isnt there a supervised children's play room for non-babies who are able to play nicely but cant sit in a hour-long service?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49309265)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 10:13 AM
Author: swashbuckling fishy nursing home quadroon

The whole point of Catholic mass is to show off your entire beautiful family in their Sunday finest and feel smug and superior.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308937)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 10:19 AM
Author: rose sick church



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308950)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:35 AM
Author: Razzle-dazzle school cafeteria

Allow rent seeking doctors to drug them into a semi-lobotomized state. If things get tough, abdicate parental responsibility by frying their developing minds with screens

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308864)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: Dashing Set Psychic

do the sat evening mass or noon on sundays. Don’t do 9am or 10:30.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308887)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 10:13 AM
Author: swashbuckling fishy nursing home quadroon

Cr. Or the youth mass at 5 p.m.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308939)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:44 AM
Author: plum fragrant chapel

is this a novus ordo mass? first of all, dont go to those

if it was a latin mass parish it would probably be full of kids their age and younger so yours doing this would be nbd unless theres something wrong with them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308888)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 10:52 AM
Author: stimulating shrine blood rage

Good luck finding TLM. You know who wants it gone.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49309028)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 12:13 PM
Author: plum fragrant chapel

depends on location i guess. here theres fssp(4 sunday mass times) and sspx pretty close plus a sede place like 40 minutes away

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49309193)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 10:13 AM
Author: Racy Trailer Park

exorcism

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308936)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 10:13 AM
Author: Racy Trailer Park

full submersion, repeated dunking, in boiling sierra mist until the electric jew is driven out

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308940)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 10:20 AM
Author: low-t bateful forum

benadryl

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308951)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 10:20 AM
Author: rose sick church

Feed them a healthy diet and they won’t be unruly.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49308952)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 7:09 PM
Author: free-loading kitty cat alpha

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310211)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 8:50 PM
Author: Concupiscible property

(childless manchild who claims to subsist on steak, whiskey, and cigarettes)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310404)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 10:48 AM
Author: saffron pit

We used to keep our kid w us during service until it was clear he'd had it and then one of us would take him to the church daycare.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49309022)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 11:20 AM
Author: dull office

don't they have a set aside children's mass or something like that where all the families with young kids go and no one cares?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49309078)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 12:16 PM
Author: Insane Idiotic Dilemma

LJL at friendless geek and autistic DBG lecturing others ITT

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49309198)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 12:50 PM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

i'm the only one on here who goes daily to a house of worship. i know

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49309267)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 5:48 PM
Author: saffron pit

Daily wtf that’s too much

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310063)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 5:49 PM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

ur supposed to go 2x/day. i dont have time for that shir

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310067)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:52 PM
Author: Appetizing Slimy Box Office Chad

(Sister Mary Josephine)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310518)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:55 PM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

i dont get it. is this a goy joke?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310526)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 6:26 PM
Author: azure soul-stirring ladyboy

religion is his whole identity. not because he's religious, but because without it he wouldn't have been given his job, fat wife, or anything at all. he's just a Loser but jews have in-group welfare for their losers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310151)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 6:21 PM
Author: Vigorous dysfunction genital piercing

3 year old is too young to be expected to sit through a full mass without causing some commotion. 6 year old should be all set with some snacks and a coloring book.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310144)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 6:34 PM
Author: brilliant galvanic jap

religion is the opiate of the masses. lol @ believing in this fairy

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310160)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 7:10 PM
Author: free-loading kitty cat alpha

Try raising them in such a way that they're not controlled by their impulses? It takes some work, but it's not that hard.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310213)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 7:58 PM
Author: saffron pit

Should probably sit this one out.

I would not say this if you hadn’t divorced ur wife.

Hell I would not say this if you had remarried.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310283)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:06 PM
Author: free-loading kitty cat alpha

Whachu mean??

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310434)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 8:52 PM
Author: Concupiscible property

(guy whose kids chopped their peckers off due to impulses)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310410)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 7:52 PM
Author: Pearl Crackhouse Headpube

somehow every church managed this just fine until about 20 years ago, so the solution should be obvious, you tell them to stfu in god's house or you are going to hit them

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310263)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 8:49 PM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

you come off as an unhinged virgin in every thread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310401)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 8:55 PM
Author: Pearl Crackhouse Headpube

I'm probably the only one in this thread who went to a normal church as a child, you really would just get hauled out into the parking lot to get your ass whipped if you were a little shit and the system worked very well

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5780674&forum_id=2#49310419)



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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:51 PM
Author: exciting pontificating voyeur

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Date: September 28th, 2025 9:04 PM
Author: Concupiscible property

We go to family mass which is right before CCD class, so full of kids. I recommend you do that if possible. As our priest tells parishioners, if someone comes to family mass and has a problem with crying kids, it's their problem.

Bring some quiet toys, like stuffed animals or matchbox cars. Promise donuts afterwards and threaten "no donuts" if they misbehave. Follow through on this. (There are free donuts available after our mass, which draws all the families.)

Hold the kid up so he or she can see what's happening. A lot of my kid's annoying behavior was caused by missing out on seeing things. Try to get them involved in the more interesting parts of mass, like exchanging signs of peace or speaking up if they take parishoners' prayers during the prayer of the faithful.

If the kid acts up and is flipping out, don't be afraid to pick him or her up and walk out. Our church is in NYC and doesn't have a crying room, so I literally had to take my younger kid outside 5-6 times between ages 3 and 4. Everyone knows it's hard, and it's really only tough for like a year or 18 months.

And geeze - when I go to mass while traveling to parishes in areas that don't have stuff like this, it is full of crazy old gray-haired people and I know the church is going to be shuttered (or doing Spanish mass only) in like 10 years. Don't stop bringing kids to church, it's the only way they might have a chance of doing it once they're an adult.

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Date: September 29th, 2025 3:53 PM
Author: Fuchsia mad-dog skullcap sneaky criminal

We ended up going and it was mostly ok. Brought a coloring book for both of them. Made it to communion but cut out right after. It was a “kids” mass so there were plenty of other kids around and many babies or other kids were making random noise.

I’m still pretty shitty as we’re only going once a month plus holy days of obligation.

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