Teaching Children How To Pray?
Adults know that one of the most valuable things we can teach children is how to pray
. Prayer habits are mostly formed in childhood and carry with it a quality that lasts forever. It is bit difficult to teach the child how to pray but it is duty of the parents. Small kids can also be taught the basics of prayer like bowing their heads, closing their eyes and speaking to God in simple sentences. When there is a kids in the family, family members teach them rhymes with the prayer.Its not important that parents should teach the child to perform the worship when they reach at the age of seven. They must be given informal instruction which starts at the age of two. Its in human nature that children love to imitate adults. During our childhood we use to do role play where we act as a teacher, father, mother or principal. When adults pray in front of their kids so that child learns about it, they tend to imitate them. Here are some tips which will help you inculcating the habit of praying in child:
1. Invite them to pray with you and join the family prayer.
2. At a young age, children usually imitate what they see, so it is important to always pray in front of them
3. The practice session of how to pray, should only last between 5 to 15 minutes. At this age consistency is more important than length of practice.
4. Remind them that they are praying to God to thank him for all He has given them
5. Important to remember that not all children are ready at the same time and that not every day will the child be ready to learn new materials.
6. One of the most important things that a parent should do is to praise the child for each accomplished task and encouragement to achieve more success.
Tell your child that god is always there and listen to their prays. Kids never believe unless they are given some evidence. For this you have to make them realize that God really listens to them. You can ask them, did you ask to god for the recovery of your friend? When he is feeling better, thank god for answering your prayers. Remember that god answers the prayer in several ways and god may or may not answer exactly as children requested. Also there are different ways of offering prayers to god like kneeling, standing, lifting hands, and even lying on a bed. Tell your children that they can pray whenever-and wherever-they want to. There is no specific time for it or any hard and fast rule. What is important is it should come directly from the heart.
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