ABSTRACT
Some children pray, despite parental disapproval. The evidence indicates that there was a fairly good measure of projection and most children identified successfully with the child in the picture. It is evident, from an analysis of answers that some children who pray regularly may lack a variety of prayers, and that some who pray infrequently may have a wider variety, or breadth of prayer content. Prayers for self are not necessarily egocentric prayers, but prayers where the self is the recipient, or the bestower, as in prayers of thanks. Profiles of the major stages of childhood and adolescence in terms of prayer are difficult to construct with clarity due to great diversity and problems of assessing the material. There is little to comment on in terms of religious education for it is evident that children's prayers and their ideas of prayers will be limited in the ways, the people have outlined.
