Your Child and Church
The fundamental thing to understand for this section is that church is important for adults. It is important to grow your faith and to keep you in check with your community and with God. If you understand this, then it is very understandable to force your children to go to church. I have seen families that don't mind if their teenagers skip church, but in my family our kids always went with us to church (unless they had a valid reason for skipping).
It is important that you find a church with a good Sunday School program. It is silly to force your young children to go to the main service of church along with you, where the message is meant for adults and can be boring to the children. Sunday School allows them to have fun with other children learning about the Bible, as well as make good friends from good families. Sunday school is meant to to teach Biblical Truths in a simplified form, so don't expect them to know theology, but it is a great foundation and often times very enjoyable. To me, a key part of a good church is a good children's program. I very much enjoyed being a Sunday School teacher and still love to volunteer, because I love seeing the children so excited learning about God. I love to be a part of their foundation.
As your children get older, Sunday School becomes more advanced and the emphasis, I have found, becomes more on matters of the heart and spiritual growth rather than Bible stories. This is key at their age because that is when they are getting in touch with their emotions and building their personality and life choices. Youth group is an even better place for this. We always made our children go to youth group for this reason. And youth group was not a substitute for church, because we wanted them in that habit, but it was something we had them do in addition. And all three of our children loved going to youth group and still have a relationship with their youth leaders to this day, as well as many of their friends from youth group.
AWANA is something I highly recommend if your church or a local church has it. As I mentioned in the God section, AWANA builds a knowledge base about the Bible and how to be a Christian for children at a young age. Our three children went through it and it helped supplement what they learned at their Christian school. If you are not familiar with AWANA, visit their website and read more about it.
Another event for young children is Vacation Bible School. I also advise that because it is very fun and good memories for them. It functions like AWANA, only there is more emphasis on games and entertainment, but there are times where they are taught the Bible in very unique ways. I have found that our children still remember things about the Bible through Vacation Bible School memories.
Lastly, as your children get older, have them volunteer for Christian charities or church activities or ministries from time to time. It helps build a servants heart, something that God wants from all of us. Jesus was the perfect example of that. With our children, our daughters helped out sometimes with the children's ministry, and our son went on a mission trip to Mexico to build houses. These things further their faith because it is faith in action. In fact, the act of going to church is faith in action, something we all need.