PARENTING April 19, 2010 ISSUE

A PRAYER THAT ISN'T BIG OR LITTLE

ANDREA MCCORMICK

GROWING UP, my sister and I used to have two prayer plaques on the wall of our bedroom. Our parents had purchased them in a Christian Science Reading Room and put them on our wall so we could learn the words. Each night we would say them when we went to bed.

These verses were a New Year's gift from Mary Baker Eddy for little children and big children (see Miscellaneous Writings 1883–1896, p. 400). I was envious of my older sister, who got to say the "Prayer for the Big Children."

About the author

Andrea McCormick, an early childhood educator for 18 years, lives in New York City, where she and her husband have an antiques business and restaurant.

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