A mother's prayer

Since my first daughter was born nineteen months ago I have been doing a lot of studying about parenting.  My main emphasis is how I can properly bring my children up in the ways of the Lord.  I have found a lot of great material regarding this topic.
 
Today I read a quote from one of Spurgeon’s sermons and he explained the approach his mother took explaining the things of the Lord to him and his siblings.  I was blessed by this quote and found it provided a great example of a way we can properly teach our children about the Lord.  I thought it might be helpful to other young parents as well.  So here is the quote:
 
It was the custom on Sunday evenings, while we were yet little children, for her to stay at home with us, and then we sat round the table and read verse by verse, and she explained the Scripture to us.  After that was done, then came the time of pleading; there was a little piece of “Alleyn’s Alarm,” or of Baxter’s “Call to the Unconverted,” and this was read with pointe observations made to each of us as we sat round the table; and the question was asked how long it would be before we would think about our state, how long before we would seek the Lord.  Then came a mother’s prayer, and some of the words of a mother’s prayer we shall never forget, even when our hair is grey.  I remember on one occasion her praying thus: “Now, Lord, if my children go on in their sins, it will not be from ignorance that they perish, and my soul must bear a swift witness against them at the day of judgment if they lay not hold of Christ.” Charles Spurgeon