He gives the blessing of children so that we can raise them up to be Godly offspring, Godly men and women who will serve Him with their lives. (redeeminggod.com)
Consider the first - person plurals of the Lord's Prayer («Our Father...»), Jesus's prayers before meals, his blessing of children, the audible prayers both in the Temple and in synagogues (often called «prayer houses»), the stories of national prayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters of Paul. (firstthings.com)
The other incident is the blessing of the children whose parents brought them to Jesus, with his indignant rebuke of the overzealous disciples who presumed to protect him from being bothered for such a purpose. (religion-online.org)