Can't a poor kid sit on the thunderbox without having to make supplicatory prayers for assistance in voiding his bowels? Adorable! Father and Son Pray for potty time - Cute Videos My (very infrequent) experience with such problems is that senna (or its equivalent) is ever so much more effective than prayer. I guess if a god can trouble himself with sparrows (Matt 10:29), I dare say that knowing a constipated child required his assistance would hardly be a challenge for him, without the necessity of being asked.
I always thought it had the opposite effect given the sour scowls of the disapproving old biddies at church when I was growing up. Who knew?
I have recognized the problem. It all starts here: (It was actually the father who farted and scared the baby)