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Where is the empirical evidence for this statement? Or are you speaking about outliers?
I have heard plenty of internationally-renoun religious figures make very public prayers that sprecifically are wishes. Does that make your 4-year old smarter than Oral Roberts, for just one example?

The writer is very inconsistent, and contradicts herself. If it's a special conversation, even if not a wish, why does it so often reflect or substitute for the parental roles in their lives (which seems to back up Piaget)?

Also, her numbers for the percent of Americans with specific religious affiliation are off. In April, the long-standing continuous Gallup poll showed 12% choosing "no affiliation", not the 5% she presupposes. The fastest growing sector in that percentage is declaring no religious identity at all (agnostics or atheists?).

South Carolina's Governor Sanford was widely quoted as stating that God told him to not resign. Now it happened to be the Republican contingency of his own state government who were insisting on his resignation. I feel statistically certain that most (if not all) S.C. Republican elected officials call themselves Christians, and that most of them regularly reflect through prayer to God before making pronouncements on such momentous decisions.
I urge all Christians to take a few moments to ponder the metaphysical implications of these facts.
You might want access to a glass of water an a couple headache-remedy tablets, though.
Should enough of you give this serious thought I also predict a rise on stories about church properties for sale.