Let’s do a quick analysis on how little children ask.

What do they ask for? 

Everything and anything.  If they hear about Disneyland, they want to go there tomorrow.

How often do little children ask?

Repeatedly. Over and over again. They wear us out. Sometimes we give in just to shut them up.

How do little children ask?

Without guile. They just say what is on their minds. They have no awareness of what is appropriate or inappropriate.

Jesus tells us to watch little children if we want to learn how to ask in prayer. After introducing the idea of bold asking in the Sermon on the Mount (“Ask, and it will be given to you”) he tells us why we can boldly ask. “Which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!” (Matthew 7:7,9).

If we earthly parents, with all our brokenness, still give our kids good gifts, won’t our heavenly Father do even more? Our kids’ requests, no matter how trivial, tug at our hearts. God feels the same.
–excerpted Paul E. Miller’s   A Praying Life