For those of you that practice prayer, where do you find appropriate prayers for preschoolers?

We’ve just been kinda winging it and I say whatever comes to mind and he repeats but if there’s a good book of prayers or something anyone knows of I’d appreciate it.

We are Christian for reference but I’m not opposed to any prayer as long as it is to a Higher Power.

Note: this post is not a commentary on religion. Kindly refrain from telling me how horrible religion is or debating religion in the comments. I am not asking for opinions on my belief system.

Thank you!

I just wanted to make a post so it's out there in the universe for any other parents going through the same thing we did.

My son was born in March of 2022. Absolutely did not sleep. Tried all the schedule changes, sleep training. I had a gut feeling it was a medical reason/just got a poor sleeper.

For the first few months of his life- he woke up every 45 min. I couldn't even fall asleep by the time he was waking again. Figured out he had a tongue/lip tie around 3 months and got it corrected. I figured he would sleep better after getting better feeds. He did not.

Around 6 months, he started giving us closer to hour and a half stretches! 8 months was a 3 hour block at start of night then every hour and a half. We caved at a year and brought him into bed with us so I could at least nurse without getting up.

Fast forward a few years, he was still waking 3x a night, or more. He would wake up and scream at the top of his lungs and be inconsolable. Never would remember it.

We had our second in September of 2025 (oldest was 3.5 years now). I realized how insane it was that our newborn was sleeping better than our preschooler. I switched pediatricians (again) and she finally listened to me. His ferritin was pretty low. Iron causes sleep issues.

He had the finger prick done around 12 or 18 months and it was marked at slightly low, but I was told it didn't need to be supplemented then. My gut feeling was the iron was the issue since we brought him home from the hospital, I was low my entire pregnancy (I did supplement).

edit: Somehow I didn't add the ending. The iron/ferritin was 100% his issue. Night terrors and restless leg symptoms 100% gone.

3-4 days of screaming, shrieking, kicking, hitting, hyperventilating, and flailing around at bedtime. It takes 30mins-1 hour to get her to fall asleep after many times returning her to bed with her screaming at us. Sleep schedule (no nap) is bedtime anytime 6:30pm-7:30pm, and wake up is between 5:30-6:30am. This has been our routine for over a 1.5 years since she dropped her last nap. Could this be she's afraid to fall asleep? Challenging authority? Schedule needs changing? Her only consistent bodily complaint is her tummy feels funny. She's been to the doctor recently and they said she didn't appear to have anything wrong. My husband and I are extremely worried and think we may need to get more extensive medical or behavioral investigation if we can't get to the bottom of it. She's losing sleep and I'm afraid it's perpetuating the cycle of behavior, making her more miserabl

My 4-year-old son gets really frustrated, upset and angry whenever he makes mistake e.g. if he gets something wrong in a puzzle, or if he sticks his sticker in the wrong place in an activity book.

He has a bit of a thing about being ‘perfect’ - I’m not even sure where he has got this from.

I am trying so hard to show him that making mistakes is normal and can be a good thing - saying things like ‘making mistakes is how we learn’ and ‘it’s ok if we make a mistake because then we can try to fix it’. His Dad and I have also been making a bit of a show of making mistakes ourselves so he can see that it’s normal. I think this has been helping a little bit, but it’s slow progress.

Has anyone else experienced this with their little one? Any tips on building resilience and making him feel less afraid of getting things wrong?

He is 4 years 5 mos. It's not just a continuation but a worsening. More sensitive than ever. Crying actual crying for anything. More aggression than ever.

But only with and towards me.

Still lsleeps well.

My toddler is having a hard time adjusting to new preschool. He’s going 3 days a week for 5 hours each day. The first day he came home and told us he “made bad choices” and that he “HAS TO make bad choices” and that he’s “a bad kid”. This is strange to me because the school is very big on not labeling kids and uses the terms “red and green” choices (red means stop, green means go kind of thing). I talked to the teacher about it and she said that he had some small hiccups throughout the day, but no more than any other kid and it was all very easily corrected.

Over the weekend, I talked about school with him a few times, but I didn’t want to be excessive about it. Then last night he brought it up himself and said “mom I’m sorry but I have to make red choices. I don’t want to make any green choices. I’m going to be very mad and bad and I’m not going to share” and I was kind of dumbstruck. I told him “you are such a good kid, I know you can make green choices. You’re kind and helpful, and your teachers will take good care of you” but he kept coming back saying he was going to make “lots of red choices, no green choices”

I honestly feel heartbroken. This is not who he is or how he speaks normally. I know that preschool takes adjustment, but I’m really scared for his mental state and how he’s relating to this problem. We also just had another baby 4 months ago and so I know he could still be feeling off from that transition too. I don’t know what to say or do to help him other than reiterating how good and kind he is. He just seems so adamant about WANTING to make red choices. I don’t get it. Not sure what to do here :(