What do your kids pray about?

[TheBYUGuy]

Kids are fun. Junior has been saying his own prayers at night for a couple years now, and of course we’ve tried to encourage him to thank God for the things that are meaningful to him. Here are some of the unique things that have made regular appearances in his prayers:

Cabela’s
Africa
“All the animals in Africa”
Star Wars
Iowa
Texas
Santa Claus

There have been other ones here and there that I can’t remember right now.

What are some of the unique things that your kids have mentioned in prayers?

[WashingtonCoug]

My daughter prayers for each one of her friends and every member of their family by name. We've had some long prayers.

[Clark Addison]

My daughter in almost every prayer says "Thank you that Jesus can be happy".

[Surfah]

"That my doll can get shot."

Direct quote from a prayer the other week. I still have no clue what she was trying to say. But Gidget started laughing so hard that our daughter got embarrassed and refused to finish.

[Donuthole]

Lately, every one of Donette's prayers starts like this: "Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for this day, and thank You for my holy spirit . . ."

Not really sure where she picked that up. Probably some residual confusion from a primary lesson about the Holy Ghost, or something like that, but I'm not about to tell her that her spirit isn't holy and that she shouldn't be grateful for it.

[cougjunkie]

The other night my daughter said "and please let me dream about rainbows, butterflies and the princess frog movie" During her prayer.

[TripletDaddy]

My kids prayers are often like a bizarre acid trip. Praying for grasshoppers, rice, balloons, the Small World ride, sprinkled donuts, and snow.

For awhile, they were into saying "please bless that our food can come in the mail." I have no idea what that meant and for a few weeks I checked my credit card statements for a mysterious purchase from Omaha Steaks.....no dice. And no food ever came in the mail, so there goes the notion that God answers a child's prayer.

Lately, my son says something that I really dig: "please bless that we can all get along and have some fun." I love that he asks that we can all "have some fun."

What strikes me as most profound is when the children pray precociously without prompting...asking that their friends or siblings can get better, that they can be comforted in the night when they sleep, that they could be nice and be patient, that they can all share with each other, etc. This past Sunday evening for FHE, my wife did a lesson on tithing. She brought envelopes from Church and everyone filled out their own tithing slip. They each stuck $1 in the envelope and filled it out, 100% in their own writing, excited to give it to the Bishop on Sunday. In the prayer that night, my daughter asked that "we could all pay our tithing to help people."

These little dudes....the children in our lives....they are special and very bright. Much more aware than we may suppose. It is an amazing stewardship to raise children and to teach them the paths...whatever those paths may be. But with certainty, you are never too young to pray. Kids get it. They know what is going on.

[statman]

Our little one (turns two in less than two weeks) doesn't really speak in sentences. He simply hijacks prayers in the middle. Usually his prayers include everyone in the family and whatever toys he's most concerned with that day. He's also fascinated with trucks - "big, big HUGE trucks" are a favorite - so they often get included.

The other day we were at Cabela's, and there were two police cars, an ambulance and a fire truck parked out in front. Our son was absolutely extatic that he got to actually touch all four vehicles. Later we found out that a customer had died of a heart attack - all we told him was that someone had gone to be with Heavenly Father and that it was very sad.

That night in his prayers, he said: "Big big amblance truck sad. Pleece cars computers sad (I assume referring to the laptops in the front seats of the squad cars). Big, big, huge fire truck sad. Heavenly Father happy."

I think little kids understand a lot more than we think they do...

[creekster]

Our little one (turns two in less than two weeks) doesn't really speak in sentences. He simply hijacks prayers in the middle. Usually his prayers include everyone in the family and whatever toys he's most concerned with that day. He's also fascinated with trucks - "big, big HUGE trucks" are a favorite - so they often get included.

The other day we were at Cabela's, and there were two police cars, an ambulance and a fire truck parked out in front. Our son was absolutely extatic that he got to actually touch all four vehicles. Later we found out that a customer had died of a heart attack - all we told him was that someone had gone to be with Heavenly Father and that it was very sad.

That night in his prayers, he said: "Big big amblance truck sad. Pleece cars computers sad (I assume referring to the laptops in the front seats of the squad cars). Big, big, huge fire truck sad. Heavenly Father happy."

I think little kids understand a lot more than we think they do...

My son loved trucks too. A lot. Whenever he would see one he ouwld keep calling it out over and over. So if he saw a reacror/trailer rig he would keep excitedly shouting "Truck, big truck, look big truck" over and over. This would normally be just annopying but not much mnore.

However at the time he could not make the TR sound in truck and he kept subsitutiing it with an F. We became inured ot the problem but when in public we wold get some pretty hard looks from people.

[The_Tick]

We call them Pickup for that same reason.

[Moliere]

"bless me to not pee in my panties"

I've heard this one a lot over the past little while as our daughter is getting potty trained.

[wuapinmon]

The other night my daughter said "and please let me dream about rainbows, butterflies and the princess frog movie" During her prayer.

That is some cuteness overload right there.


My son goes to a Baptist pre-school. His prayer has become, only, to the tune of "Frere Jacque:"

God our fader
God our fader
We fank you
For a mini blessin'
AH AH MEN
AH AH MEN

[dabrockster]

Last Night before bed we played Dr and my son was pretending to be a surgen. He talked about hwo I had broekd bones in my hadn ad that eh would need to take them out and fix them..

As we preapred for bed and he said prayer, he asked heavenly father to bless Mommy and Daddy's broken bones to heal and be all better..


It was hard for my wife and I not to laugh, but we didn't.. It was very precious..

[TheBYUGuy]

That is some cuteness overload right there.


My son goes to a Baptist pre-school. His prayer has become, only, to the tune of "Frere Jacque:"

God our fader
God our fader
We fank you
For a mini blessin'
AH AH MEN
AH AH MEN

Mine goes to a Lutheran school. A few times we've sat down to the dinner table and he starts to sing, "Thank you God for snacks today, snacks today..." but he doesn't finish the tune. Whenever I try to get him to keep going, he gets sheepish and starts eating.

There's another one he mumbles around the house, something about the Father and Son, "Three in one, three in one."

[dabrockster]

Another cool experience we had a year ago in a prayer. But it was a blessing....

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