I want also to affirm that I do believe strongly that worship is for children, and I acknowledge that this is a congregation where we do rejoice that the familiar pattern of worship is not so rigid that we cannot cope with a cry or a bit of a tantrum. I only hear when my own have caused some small disturbance. I, and I am sure everyone else here, accepts that young people can only learn the etiquette as they experience worship. They need to experience first hand the value we place on this time together, and they can only do that through first hand experience. Indeed this is the reason I have consistently disregarded those calls for worship to go longer than an hour.
Worship is meant for all, younger and older.
If we want young people in Church, then an hour is the limit. Young people, quite legitimately, have other things to do. If we only want older people, whose existences are indeed more relaxed, then the services can be longer. There is always next week. About the author and links.