Methods for Encouraging Children to Love Prayer

Question:
He asks, Honorable Shaykh, finally, about the modern methods and ways that encourage and instill a love of prayer in children?

Answer:
The methods are both modern and old: raising them, raising them to prayer, revering the prayer, waking them up if they are sleeping, and commanding them to do so if they have reached the age of discernment. The greatest of the methods is raising them to prayer, caring about it, and teaching them its rulings, teaching them ritual purity, teaching them the dhikr (remembrance of Allah) recited in the prayer, and teaching them the Qur'an that they recite in the prayer. We