Our sons godparents are close friends (our oldest child) and family members (our second child).
To be honest I’m a little confused as to their role, but to help guide and teach them with religion … But I also assume to help watch over and help out with them in times of need???
I really don’t know 🙁

I think god parents is a bit of hit and miss. My husband’s godparents he has nothing to do with, yet his sister’s godparents we all see all the time. We didn’t bother with official god parents for our kids, our close friends and family will always be around as needed, official title or not!

its up to you if you pick family members or friends as long as you feel comfortable with the people you pick and know they will be the right people to care for for child if anything happens to you

the role of the god parent is typically as a religious guardian of sorts, someone who is close and in regular contact with the family to guide the child through religious existence and education. I believe in times gone by that the role was different with such a high rate of young deaths in the victorian age and so on i believe they actually became the legal guardians in the abscence of next of kin

Family or friends it depends on who you feel would be there for your kids if something happened to you as this is the main role of godparents

I would choose the people that i would trust most with my children, ones that would teach my kids about god and who are positive role models.

We chose good friends who have stood by us through everything. We would prefer them and trust them to look after our children rather than all our family fighting over our children, which we know would happen otherwise if we did not make the decision.

We didnt relaly have anyone who we thought wouldve made good godparents so we simply dont have any do you really need to appoint roles?

We decided on my sister as God Mother and my husband’s best friend (who he has known for 30 odd years) as the God Father. I guess we looked at who was close to the kids and whom we valued.

I chose my only sister – we are close, and two really good friends. Each of them brings a unique story & ways on viewing things.

I figured family already had roles, so we chose close friends. We chose two couples because we couldn’t decide and wanted them both to be a part of our daughters life. We are Christians so it was important to us that our friends were as well.

I would definately choose those close to you as family memebers as you will always know they will be there for your children forever i chose friends and family members and those friends that i chose are no longer in my life which is so sad for my children i chose my brother for both my kids and im very grateful for doing so i just wish i could do it all over again and just have family members

We chose people we thought would stay in our lives and would be good role models and mentors for our children. Unfortunately some family members weren’t happy about our choices, but that is their problem, like all parents we were only thinking about what was best for our children rather than trying to avoid family politics!

I haven’t chose them yet but reckon choose people that will always be part of your life and families life

My kids godparents are mostly relatives and close friends. For me, I chose them because I know I can trust them to be a good role model for my kids.

My son has two sets of god parents (odd I know) but we have a family set and a friend set but even then it wasn’t an easy choice1

I chose my best friends from high school, they were there for me through a tough emotional pregnancy(lying cheating dv relationship) and they have never left my side! their role is like being my lgs aunties, she doesnt have any, but if something happened to me my parents would look after my lg, so they are mainly just aunties and love her to bits almost as much as me 🙂

I would choose a close family member , you never know if a close friend will always be there. As your life changes with a growing family sometimes you just grow in different direction.

I prefer to choose someone from my husband or my family. You know for sure that you will always have contact with them and they always are going to be in your life.

I chose very good friends one from me and the other is my hubbies best mate as to me this is giving them a closer connection with my kids and our little family both of them are great with our kids they apart from family are the only people I trust to babysit so I have all the faith in the world that if we aren’t here they would be more then happy to step up and guide them. You just need to trust your gut instinct with who you are going to pick