a parents prayer
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Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say, and to answer all their
questions kindly.
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Keep me from interrupting them or contradicting them.
Make me as courteous to them as I would have them be to me.
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Forbid that I should ever laugh at their mistakes, or resort to shame or ridicule when
they displease me.
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May I never punish them for my own selfish satisfaction or
to show my power.
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Let me not tempt my child to lie or steal.
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And guide me hour by hour that I may demonstrate by all I say and do
that honesty produces happiness.
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Reduce, I pray, the meanness in
me.
And when I am out of sorts, help me, O Lord, to hold my
tongue.
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May I ever be mindful that my
children are children and I
should not expect of them the judgment of
adults.
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Let me not rob them of the
opportunity to wait on
themselves and to make
decisions.
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Bless me with the bigness
to grant them all their
reasonable requests, and the courage to deny them privileges I
know will do them harm.
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Make me fair and just and kind.
And fit me,
O Lord, to be loved and
respected and imitated by my
children. Amen.
——Abigail Van Buren (1918– ), Abigail Van Buren (1918– ), "Dear Abby""Dear Abby"
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