Thousand Islands Meeting
Kingston, Ontario    CANADA


Children's Programs

Children are welcome in Meeting. Although many children would find the entire hour of stillness difficult, most can manage the first five or ten minutes. Many parents take this time to hold their children close. Others bring spiritual reading for the children to help them centre.

After Meeting, there is sometimes tea and cookies, so that starving tummies don't have to wait to get home.

 

At meeting, relax and let your baby be with you. My small daughter called it "the best cuddle of the week" when I couldn’t rush off and do something busy. It’s not easy for the parents to believe that their child’s gurglings actually help the meeting, rather than interrupt it. Nonetheless, that is true, and you shouldn’t give way to the temptation to take a happily babbling child out of the meeting (though howling is something different!).
Anne Hosking, 1986

 

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