Teach us how to truly understand our children.
To listen patiently to everything they say to us
and to always answer their questions with kindness.
Protect us from the temptation to react impatiently.
Help us not to hurt their feelings, injure their sense
of self-worth, nor punish them
Enlighten us so that we instruct them calmly
and gently and that in every moment,
we inspire them through our example.
Cause us to ignore our childre's small
and insignificant mistakes;
rather help us to see their gifts
and the good things they do.
Grant us to use the right words
when they deserve our praise.
Help us to support them,
to treat them according to their age,
and to have realistic expectations.
May we help them achieve
all the good things their hearts desire.
Make us good and fair, wise and friendly.
May we be loved by them and may we be to them a real Christian example.
Finally, through our entire life and in all our actions,
help us to show them the road which leads only to You.
~Anonymous
I wish I knew the author of this lovely prayer. It is a good reminder to parents to be gentle to our children, loving, and to teach them how to be good people as they grow up. I've seen parents who just seem so unhappy with their children, dissatisfied, disappointed, and it breaks my heart that they see the flaws in their child instead of the sweetness, the innocence, and the tenderness. My little man is my human being; he belongs to me and I hope to always build him up and help him grow into an upstanding, confident, decent, bright and hard-working little gentleman.
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