Make me a better parent
Teach me to understand my child, 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 child to lie or to steal.
And guide me hour by hour that I may demonstrate by all I say and do that honestly 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 child is a child 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 decisions.
Bless me with the bigness to grant them all of their reasonable request and the courage to deny them privileges I know will do them harm.
Make me fair and just and kind. And fix me O Lord, to be loved and respected and imitated by my child.
AMEN
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