Parents apologize to their children

Continuing a series of of prayers, this is a prayer of forgiveness from parents directed to their children:

Forgive us if we instilled it in your heads that only a career and money are the only important things in life.

Forgive us if we gave you more objects than values, more luxury than principles.

Forgive us if we spent more time in scolding than in correcting and giving good examples.

Forgive us if we were more concerned about the cleanliness of your teeth than your speech.

Forgive us if we emphasized more the easy life than the good and just way of life.

Forgive us if we were overly concerned about making more money, to such an extent that to build a beautiful house, we destroyed the unity of our home.

Forgive us if we were so busy that we couldn’t find time to do things together, to talk to each other, and to simply be together.  

Forgive us if we erred in our calculations, as we increased the buying of stuff but decreased the true show of love.  

Forgive us if we never stressed the importance of loving God, thereby ending up desiring everything but the presence of God in your lives. 

Forgive us that we taught you many subjects, but ignored the most important, the Bible, the catechism, and going to church regularly.