Bedtime

JOYPEACE

======== I felt the urge recently to start praying with my children every night before they go to bed. I was praying every night on my own and they were praying when their mother put them in the bed (at least I think they were). How will children truly learn how to pray if they don't hear their mother and father pray? If they only see and hear Mother pray and there is a father in the house, they will assume only women pray. Well, I was led to change that in my house. I told my wife to never let the kids go to bed without calling me in to pray with them first, as long as I am in town. The first night I did it, my five-year-old son said when it was his turn, "Thank you God for reminding us to pray." Most of the things we learn in life we learn from our parents. Imagine the difference in the response to problems children would have when they got older, if they heard their parents pray every night through their problems. Prayer is a primary form of communication with God. We teach our children how to communicate with humans by correcting their grammar and making sure they are polite, but what do we teach them about communicating with God? Many parents may say that the church, temple or mosque will teach them. Well, when the schools teach our kids language five days a week, children still talk like what they hear at home. What are they hearing parents say at home to God? Even silence sends a message. We also teach our kids never to talk to strangers. ~A MountainWings Original~