Is it time to change what children are taught at church?

Here’s a question: In your Sunday youth and children’s groups (assuming you have them), what do you teach? And how do you decide what to teach?

I think there are three approaches — all of which I have used. Let’s look through them and consider their strengths and weaknesses.

#1 Teach what we feel like

Okay, this doesn't mean on a week-by-week basis, but perhaps at the beginning of term deciding, “We haven’t done a Gospel for a while; let’s look at some parables.”