You can tell your kids that this is how you grew up and that it was beneficial.

This is some of where I am at with it and I think it is good advice.

Telling someone to pray doesn't feel trite to me. I used to spend a lot of time praying and there is no question that this movement away from my faith coincides with a time in life when I began to pray less and less (till now, where I don't pray at all).

My concern with prayer is that it feels so very much like my own self that I hear. There was a time when I saw signs in many things, but now these do feel like coincidence and over interpretation.

I'll try to spend some time praying, though. It's good advice as several people have noted.