A typical issue of the Los Angeles Times contains more information in it than a seventeenth century Englishman could have had available to him in a lifetime. Children have adjusted their minds to be able to take in information from three, four, twenty different sources at the same time, and if they don't have that information flowing in they seem to appear bored. It's not that they're shallow. It's just that they don't have enough coming in. So that was the second bogus belief.
Kids are less committed to the church.
The statistics show just the opposite. Statistics are showing that teenagers are coming to church more, and adults are coming to church less. Volunteer organizations are reporting a fast, steady growth in teens volunteering for service in their community, and in foreign missions more than ever before. We can also learn from Jesus' blessing of the children that children should be taught about the gospel at the earliest of ages. Even though they are young, their hearts are open to divine influences that are there.