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"I'm new here, but this thread immediately attracted my attention. SO much good advice. What I've been doing with my two girls (4, 6) is doing two decades with them and letting each of them lead one, then I finish it myself after I tuck…"

"My children are 15, 10, 8 and 2. We have been saying one decade of the rosary each night for about 8 years now. We make this our nightly bedtime prayer. First we go around and say our intentions then begin. After we get through the Creed, Our Father…"

"I am beginning this tonight actually, so we are in it together! I have a 7, 4 and 18mo and I know we will struggle the first couple of nights. It's change for them and that will take adjustment. I have a big rosary for the 4yo and a normal…"

"Jessica, Sorry to be so late to this discussion, but I want to encourage you to keep trying to find what works. We have been doing a nightly rosary with our kids (8,6,3) for two years now. This is from my recent blog post about it: "One thing…"

"It seems as if they are not really getting anything out of it then it may be that they are to young. Maybe you could bring prayer down to their level. You don't want them to dislike prayer time or to think of it as a chore. Maybe you could cut…"

"I'm so encouraged by this post!! I wrote about it on my blog http://www.elisaloves.com/2010/06/family-devotions-rosary.html and we actually began our family rosary last night. SO excited!"

"So it has been less than a month, and we have already modified our nightly Rosary. I have to thank all of you for your suggestions, which have been a catalyst for our changing things up a bit. After reading all of your tips, I realized that perhaps…"

"Hi Tima, You are most welcome for starting this thread--I'm so glad I did! I love this online Catholic community, and all of the eager Mothers we have out there, all wanting to help each other out. I'm glad I can benefit from so much…"

"Jessica, I want to thank you for starting this thread. There is alot of great advice here already which is awesome since the only advice I could offer is, stick with it: I recently learned that "sometimes the best we can do is to show up for…"

"Wow, THANK YOU! This is a beautiful idea, and I'm sure it's JUST the thing that most of us mothers have been looking for: a way to keep little ones occupied, but without having to resort to secular entertainments. Thanks for posting this…"

"Have you seen this blog post by PONDERED IN MY HEART? http://ponderedinmyheart.typepad.com/pondered_in_my_heart/2009/04/praying-the-rosary-with-little-ones.html"

"Angele, We are still struggling with this with 6 little ones running about and my oldest is 7. My approach is slightly different though, I try not to be too forceful about it, especially with the littlest ones. Everyone has rosaries and I print out…"

"Hi Everyone, Thank you all for your wisdom and advice. We have been trying to implement many of the ideas here and there, and we look forward to implementing more in te future (got to take our time with these little ones!) I finally have some time…"

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"I love your ideas! My husband and I used to pray the rosary together as a couple regularly. Now, with two little children (20 months and 3 months) it is very difficult and challenging but we try to pray it together once a week, usually on sundays.…"