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Teaching children to pray need not be a challenge
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Teaching your children to pray is also teaching them to grow spiritually. In these times when fewer and fewer children go to church, the best thing for parents to do is teach them the value of prayer from their home.
The spiritual teaching behind prayers is not the only thing that children will learn. In teaching your children to pray, they will be able to understand that:
1. They are important to God.
Since they are also his creation, your children would understand that they are not apart from any adult or anyone in the world. They will realize that God loves them and they are important to him. They can show their appreciation by learning to pray.
2. As young as they are, they already have a role to play in the community.
In teaching your children to pray, they will also learn about the purpose that God have for them. By knowing that purpose, they will have an idea how they can go about doing what is expected of them even if they are still children.
One of the challenges that parents encounter in teaching children to pray is the need to encourage them. Oftentimes, they are too busy with other things during the day. At night, they are already too tired to even utter one before going to sleep.
There are also distractions from outside factors. Influence from society is one thing. In the world where modern technology is taking over a lot of things, children’s beliefs are effected by what they see on TV or from books that they read. Most of the time, they would consider these things as reason to question the need for their parents to teach them about prayers and about praying.
As parents, how can you face these challenges and be successful in teaching your children to pray?
1. Prayer as conversation.
This is one way of including God in your children’s everyday conversation. Teach your children to pray to God as if it is just an ordinary part of their conversation. Things like, “Please make my puppy well” is one form of a prayer.
When your children get used to this, you will find that praying will come naturally for them. It would not become something that they are forced to do. they will have the initiative to start praying whenever they want to talk to God.
2. Prayer before and after meals.
One of the best times to teach your children to pray is before and after meals. You know why? Because this is when you are together as a family. No other people and no distractions.
During this time, tell them that god is the sole provider of the things that they have, even their food. So it is important that they should be grateful and remember him before and after they receive his gifts.
3. Praying as a habit the whole family can do together.
Praying together should not only be done during meal times or before sleeping. You can initiate prayers whenever you feel that you and the whole family need them.
This will teach your child that praying does not need a specific time. And that wherever and whenever, God is always waiting to hear from them through prayers.
Teaching children to pray is every parent’s responsibility. This is the best way of getting them close to the whole family and closer to God.
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