Parent's Prayer Most Loving Father, the example of parenthood,Teach me what to give and what to withhold.Show me when to reprove andwhen to praise. Make me gentle and considerate,yet firm and watchful.Keep me from weak indulgence, or from great severity.Give me the courage to be dislikedsometimes by my children, when Imust do necessary things which are displeasingin their eyes. Give me the imagination to enter into their world in order to understand and guide them. Give me all the virtues I need to lead them by word and exampleon the path of rightenousness.