Make Me a Better Parent

Hello Ladies,

One thing that I have learned about parenting is that we must lean on God in order to be the parents we should be. One day my husband and I came across this Prayer and it truly Blessed us. We are not perfect but we truly desire to be better parents with Gods help. I pray that this pray will bless and encourage you as you continue to press toward becoming the parent God has called you to be.

Parents Prayer

O' Heavenly Father, make me a better parent.  Teach me to understand my children, to listen patiently to what they have to say, and to answer all their questions kindly.  Keep me from interrupting them or contradicting them.  Make me as courteous to them as I would have them be to me.  

Forbid that I should ever laugh at their mistakes, or resort to shame or ridicule when they displease me.  May I never punish them for my own selfish satisfaction or to show my power.  Let me not tempt my children to lie or steal.  And guide me hour by hour that I may demonstrate by all I say and do that honesty produces happiness.  

Reduce, I pray, the meanness in me.  And when I am out of sorts, help me, O Lord, to hold my tongue.  May I ever be mindful that my children are children and I should not expect of them the judgment of adults.  Let me not rob them of the opportunity to wait on themselves and to make decision.  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.  Make me fair and just and kind.  And fit me, O Lord, to be loved and respected and imitated by my children.

Amen


God Bless You and hope to see you this weekend at the FEST!

(Author of prayer is Anonymous)