A Parent's Prayer
Most loving Father, the example of parenthood, You have entrusted our children to us to bring them up for and prepare them for everlasting life.
Assist us with Your Grace, that we may fulfill this sacred duty with competence and love.
Teach us what to give and what to withhold. Show us when to reprove, when to praise, and when to be silent.
Make us gentle and considerate, yet firm and watchful,
Keep us from the weakness of indulgence and the excess of severity.
Give us the imagination to enter their world in order to understand and guide them.
Grant us all the virtues we need to lead them by work and example in the ways of wisdom and piety.
One day, with them, may we enter in the joys of true and lasting home with You in heaven.
Amen.