'Parenting' Category
Advice on Raising Children
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Here are a few very beneficial reads on the topic of raising children, which are full of jewels.
Golden Principles of Raising Children
Restricting children’s TV viewing
A Child’s Difficult Questions
Our Daughters and Adolescence
Five Ways to Enhance Your Child’s Self EsteemTopic: Music
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I came across this post, and once again my thoughts turned towards the topic of music. Before Islaam, music was an important part of my life. It was the hardest thing to let go of after my conversion but I somehow managed, walillaahil hamd. After I had my son, it became a trial for me [...]Layth is now a big brother
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as-Salaamu `alaykum wa rahmatullaahi wa barakaatuhu
By the Mercy of Allaah, I gave birth to our 2nd child on Monday, May 7th 2007 at 4:06 A.M. His name is Zakariya and he weighed 6 pounds and 11 ounces and was just a little short from being 19 inches long. He looks so similar to how Layth [...]Guidance and a Child
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“O you who believe! Ward off from yourselves and your families a fire whose fuel is men and stones…”
I can be angry, stressed out, wanting to shun everyone out of my world but it only takes a moment of my son’s purity to make me smile. I [...]Staying Healthy: Studies on Toxic Chemicals
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It’s very depressing to think that so many of the things we use could be the cause of the majority of health problems. There are so many studies that link this or that to such and such disease and sometimes you just sit there and wonder ‘What is safe anymore?’ As Muslims though (as my husband reminded me) [...]Disruption caused by daycare
SPENDING a year or more in a long-daycare centre increases the likelihood that a child will be disruptive at school.
A year of childcare ‘disrupts’
Child care was defined as regularly scheduled care by anyone other than the child’s mother, lasting at least 10 hours per week. Quality child care is complex to define but includes having [...]