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You can tell your kids that this is how you grew up and that it was beneficial.
This is some of where I am at with it and I think it is good advice.
Telling someone to pray doesn't feel trite to me. I used to spend a lot of time praying and there is no question that this movement away from my faith coincides with a time in life when I began to pray less and less (till now, where I don't pray at all).
My concern with prayer is that it feels so very much like my own self that I hear. There was a time when I saw signs in many things, but now these do feel like coincidence and over interpretation.
I'll try to spend some time praying, though. It's good advice as several people have noted.
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It's great that to see that at the very least, the benefits of believing are high enough that you want to pass it onto your kids, despite not being entirely sure about whether it's true.
I can appreciate that the big dilemma here is that you want your teaching to align with what you believe, which are contradictory at the moment. The implied solution to the dilemma is to change what/how you teach or to change what you believe to stay out of the hypocrisy territory. But I think there's a third way. You can tell your kids that this is how you grew up and that it was beneficial. Not to say that this is a guaranteed success, but at least it's an option that's honest.
I would encourage you to pray. It sounds trite, but I know for myself a lot of what I've asked for has been answered. Given your current doubts, the simplest prayer would be "God, if you're real, please reveal yourself to me." An affirmative answer would resolve the dilemma. A negative one would at least give you more data about where you stand, though you'd still be in the same dilemma. But you wouldn't be any worse off than you are now.