Well if like me you're a Christian parent you want the best for your kids and you

pray for them you pray for them a lot but the schedule gets crowded and

there are days when I go home and I think I haven't

really prayed much today for my children. Is it possible to really make prayer

a priority? Well I'm John Fuller along with Dr. Danny Werta. He heads up our

parenting department and we're going to listen now to a clip from Jody Burnt.

She has spent years encouraging parents to pray for their kids and she and Jim

daily discussed some helpful ideas

for making prayer a regular part of your life.

Jody I want to zero in on some practical help for parents right at the next half of the program here.

You've provided four really practical tools.

One, give your children the why, two, build a prayer bank, bank three introduce your children to real life

Bible people and four make prayer fun you're kind of touching on that with that last

comment but speak to those four truths about teaching your kids

how to embrace prayer. Yeah and that's some of the new material in the book and that

addressed the question of when parents were saying how do I teach my kids? How do I

take that as we were saying that mystery out of it and I

think we touched a little bit on the fun part in the other episode as we talked

about like the happy hope game around the dinner table we would also do things like before the first

day of school we'd have a back-to-school ice cream Sunday party and I would just

invite other parents and kids from the neighborhood and say we're going to pray for the

school year and we'd say okay you know the Smith, you're going to pray for the school bus safety,

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