Article July 11, 1988 Issue

Parents, prayer ... and more prayer!

The Christian Science Monitor®

My daughter spilled her juice again the other day for what seemed the millionth time in her two years. As I cleaned it up, I found myself mentally calculating the number of months it would be until she was safely lodged in kindergarten.

But then I caught myself. Was I thinking that her entry into school would mean less responsibility on my part? "No!" I thought at once. "Not if she is anything like her brother." Her brother, a second grader, is happy at school and has done well academically. Yet, like most other children, he has his day-to-day run-ins to work out and his share of social adjustments to make.

At first, when he would tell me about some of these challenges, I would employ the parents' old standby—the talk cure. But it didn't take long for me to realize that something more could and should be done. So I adopted the practice of praying for him to help him through school problems.

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