FAMILY
Generation games
For our columnist, Easter means encouraging his children and their little ones to go to church. Can he put up a convincing argument?
by MARK PALMER
Easter is in early April this year. So, expect a wonderful show of daffodils and, as ever, congregations swelling in churches up and down the land for this big moment in the Christian calendar.
I shall be encouraging my children to attend an Easter service with their own children, but fear it might come to nothing - if Christmas is anything to go by. What a struggle. They all made it... but only just. My argument was that as most of them (three out of four couples) had been married in church, they should at least make an appearance every now and again, especially since some of their children were baptised into the Church of England.