A special prayer composed by the Shelah HaKadosh to express the prayers of parents on behalf of their children should be recited Thursday June 2nd - erev Rosh Chodesh Sivan - the optimal time for parents to recite this prayer [but it may be recited anytime]. The holy Shlah Hakadosh left Europe in the 17th century and made his home in Eretz Yisrael, becoming chief Rabbi of Jerusalem.
The Artscroll website states:
"All parents want the best for their children — that they should be good and upright, that they have everything they need for a fruitful, joyous life.
We recite the prayer anytime but especially on the day before Rosh Chodesh Sivan, for that is the month when God gave us the Torah, and when the Jewish people began to be called His Children. On that day, [the Shelah Hakadosh] writes, fathers and mothers should give charity to the poor and repent. They should even fast, if they are able to."
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a clearer page:
http://www.tefillos.com/tefillas_hasheloh.asp
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