This is a topic that has been very challenging for me, because it is time consuming and I always tend to invest little time on it. However, God keeps proving to me, time to time, that by following all that I learned from the studies below, I can see change not only in me but also through me by His grace to my children. I am reminded specially when I start to realize that my children behavior is turning to chaos, as I would describe to my evaluation, that I have been skipping time with them and most important with God in prayer.

From devotional Taming your kids tongue - Ginger Hubbard - from book: I cant believe you just said that!

Praying for children

As flawed parents with sin nature, there are times we are bound to blow it, make wrong decisions, let our children down and fail them in more ways than one. However, there is one thing we can do that will always reap fruit and never return void, and that is pray for them. Being a perfect parent doesn't matter. 

Being a praying parent does.

The most confident prayers we can pray are those that come directly from Gods word. To pray for our children from Gods word is to pray in harmony with Gods perfect will for their lives.

Rather than praying for what we want to happen, which can sometimes prove shallow and vain, praying directly from scripture unleashes the wisdom and power of our might Lord. It surrenders our foolish misconceptions of what we think is best, by acknowledging and accepting Gods ways not ours. To pray from scripture is to seek the will of the Father rather than the will of the parent.

'"My thoughts are nothing like your thoughts," says the Lord . "And my ways are far beyond anything you could imagine. For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts higher than your thoughts.' Isaiah 55:8-9

Once we understand and are committed to the importance of praying for our children, our next step toward improving our ability to parent calmly and effectively is to come up with a good plan of action. Having a plan* in place can aid us in responding wisely rather than reacting foolishly.

*Pray for wisdom ask God to show you a plan a action according to His will.

Proverbs 16:3 Share your plans with the Lord, and you will succeed.

Exert taken from devotional Discerning the voice of God by Priscilla Shirer on 6thday about Plans

Plan involves strategic engagement of assignments for which person is responsible

Don't come up with a list of chores in the fly. That never works and is a recipe for chaos and frustration

Only a predetermined commitment to a plan is able to hold our days together.

Obedience key - that leads to actually learning from God and being able to live with the pure satisfaction of doing His will. Is really anything more important than that?

Commit to be spiritually aligned with God of the Universe and how He wants to direct our hearts

Put an intentional resolve and strategic course of action for following Him in place- otherwise we are leaving it up to the air susceptible (likely or liable to be influences or harmed by a particular thing) to the flightily whims of our circumstances and feelings.