Kids

Generation of monsters?

Have Sweden’s permissive parents given birth to a generation of monsters? by Judith Woods Source: telegraph.co.uk Posted by: MV Events Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/mother-tongue/10636279/Have-Swedens-permissive-parents-given-birth-to-a-generation-of-monsters.html My five-year-old is extravagantly furious at being thwarted. I have infringed her human rights by mildly suggesting that she turn off the television and put some clothes on. I can see …

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Correct Expression of Parental Love- Audio Mufti Ebrahim Salejee

(Highlights of Mufti Ebrahim Salejee’s majlis – Saturday 15th March) Allah Ta‘ala has created a natural bond of love between parent and child. There is no way that this can be erased and removed. Mashaayikh explain that there are two types of relationships where the senior wishes that the junior …

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DEVELOPING YOUR CHILD’S CONFIDENCE AND CHARACTER

  1st Home “I got two A’s,” the small boy said, His voice was filled with glee. His Father very bluntly asked, “Why didn’t you get three A’s?” “Mom, I’ve done the dishes,” The girl called from the door. Her Mother very sarcastically asked, “Did you sweep the floor?” “I …

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O! Teacher Stop Teaching

  By Mirza Yawar Baig 05 February, 2014 Countercurrents.org Our present methods of teaching which are inflicted on by far the vast majority of children the world over are the single biggest cause for killing the imagination that every child is born with and making them into square blocks which …

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iPads are the new nannies

    Children are increasingly becoming more comfortable interacting with a screen – the thinner, brighter and bigger, the better – than with their parents and families.   Constantly-improving technology has become a permanent part of our lives and is spilling over into parenting, socialising, communicating and even development.   …

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The Muslim holiday bucket list

  Ebrahim Moosa In the Shariah there is no concept of a ‘holiday’ as such, a recent episode of Cii Radio’s Ulama In Focus heard. Sheikh Mukhtar Raban, a graduate of the Islamic University of Madinah Al Munawwarah and lecturer at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth told …

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Guidelines for Dealing with an ANGRY Child

By Leah Davies, M.Ed. A V O I D Screaming at the child. Embarrassing the child. Shaming the child. Labeling the child. Threatening the child. Hitting the child. Hurting the child in any way. Indulging the child. Reinforcing inappropriate behavior by giving in to his/her outbursts. DO Accept the child …

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Television

  By Roald Dahl (1916-1990).   The most important thing we’ve learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set — Or better still, just don’t install The idiotic thing at all. In almost every house we’ve been, We’ve watched them gaping …

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Disobey Allah for Sake of Allah’: Seriously?

  By Umm Zakiyyah-saudilife. “I’LL never do to my children what my parents did to me,” Salman fumed, kicking the ball against the wall next to his friend in the istiraaha. “They were only trying to look out for you, man.” Abdullah’s voice was low, partly because he didn’t want …

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