Parents Prayer

My husband went to a Catholic Men's conference recently, where Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers gave some great insight on the role and perceptions of fathers in our society. Maybe I can talk my husband into doing a guest post some time about it. Anyway, Deacon Harold talked about praying before going on the internet and placing Holy Cards around your computer monitor. Our oldest daughter and I went shopping for some Holy Cards just for this purpose and she picked out several really good ones. This prayer is one is one of my favorites that was on the back of a picture of the Holy Family:

Most Loving Father, the example of parenthood, teach us what to give and what to withhold. Show us when to reprove and when to praise. Make us gentle and considerate yet firm and watchful. Keep us from weak indulgence, or from great severity. Give us the courage to be disliked sometimes by our children, when we must do necessary things which are displeasing in their eyes. Give us the imagination to enter into their world in order to understand and guide them. Give us all the virtues we need to lead them by word and example in the path of righteousness. Amen.