Praying with Kids Just Starting School

At this next stage, after deciding together what should be prayed, we can have our children repeat the prayers after us. Again remembering that each child is an individual, we may find that some of our children want to and are ready to start saying their own prayers at this point. we should also be reinforcing the basics of how God wants to teach us and care for us and give us the best possible life, pointing out that one way we receive this care is by prayer, by talking to God about our lives. As in each one of these prayer stages, we should let our children know ahead of time that in a matter of weeks or after their next birthday (or at some other milestone of our choosing), They'll be bigger and it will be time to graduate to the next prayer step; and we should explain what that next step will be.