Guideline for divorced parents
הקדמה: All marriages do not have a happy ending. Seldom, they are cases in which couples split or get divorced. Either, because of their lack of sensibility, financial status, or...
קאַטעגאָריע "עלטערן"
How to be the best role models for your kids?
Introduction Who are children? A child is a natural offspring of a partner. Though a child belongs to one sex physically. But a child is merged with both the parents...
Appearance are Deceptive
Does ‘beauty’ and ‘Fairness’ attract people? Introduction Today’s generation nevertheless they give priority to their lives, accord priority for ‘Selfies’. With the innovation of technology, youths are obsessed. Makeup, different...
More Baby, Less Shark: Planning For Kids In The Masjid
Of all the challenges that your focus can face in prayer, there are few as insidious as Baby Shark. Doo-doo-doo doo. Baby Shark, doo doo doo doo. Baby Shark. If you are...
How Do Muslims Plan for Disability
Families with children with disability have an extraordinary set of challenges and blessings. Disability (or special needs) is a broad term. Many disabilities will prevent what we often think of...
5 Tips for Surviving Ramadan. In The Summer. When You Have Small Children.
This time a few years ago, I anticipated Ramadan with anxiety. I had 3 קינדער, all under the age of 5, and was part of a large, busy household of...
GIRLS AND SEXUALITY: UNDERSTANDING WHAT PARENTS AND MUSLIM COMMUNITIES CAN DO FOR THEIR DAUGHTERS
The issues presented here are part of a much bigger picture and definitely don’t exist in a vacuum When I became a therapist I had a vision of helping people...
PREVENTING CHILD ABUSE: WHAT CAN YOU DO?
לעצטנס, during my last psychotherapy session of the week, I listened to a Muslim woman talks about the details of being sexually abused as a child. She talked about how...
Improving Child Discipline is Improving Ourselves
Narrated Abu Musa (Radi-Allahu anhu): “Some people asked the Prophet (pbuh) “Whose Islam is the best? ד.ה. (who is a very good Muslim?” He replied, “One who avoids harming the...
MY MOTHER WAS A SECRET
A hidden diagnosis and a lifetime of pain My parents married each other in the late 70’s in Karachi. They moved to Brooklyn, NY, where my mother gave birth to...
6 Ways Muslim Parents Push Their Children Away – and Some Suggestions
HAVE BEEN blessed to speak with young Muslim professionals, college, high school and middle school students all over the US and abroad. Amongst the most frequent questions I have been...
All About Mahrs, Mahrams and Walis
Allah SWT in all His wisdom has placed extra care and protection for a woman in Islam by giving the men in her life special roles and duties to fulfill....
13 Parenting Tips Which Will Change Your Life
Mothers and fathers everywhere bend over backwards for their children just to end up with unappreciative, disrespectful and unproductive teenagers who eventually become adults. Parents get a shock when they...
I Can’t Find Time For My Kids
Thanks for your concern about developing your children’s skills. It’s a continuous task and can be done in your everyday life with different activities. The whole thing with cleaning the...
Husband Says He Can’t Afford His Wife As A Stay-At-Home Mom And His Reasoning Adds Up. Big Time.
Steven Nelms has been married to wife, Gloriana — Glory for short — for three years. Together they have a two-year-old son named Ezra. When Steven and Glory got married,...
Teaching Children the Five Pillars
TEACHING deen (רעליגיע) to our children is a huge obligation upon all parents. Generally, Muslim children begin to imitate the movements of salat (daily prayers) long before they are able to speak a word, let...
Managing My Workload As A Mother
A sister kindly took the time to leave a comment on a previous post in which I mentioned I was pregnant with my fifth baby: “Asslalamoalikum. I was just wondering...
ווי איך געפֿונען זיך אין מוטערשאַפט
You must have heard it many times, too: how motherhood/fatherhood/parenthood changes your life perspective, how ‘me’ turns into ‘we’ and how you begin to look for your child’s face on...
Our Little Ummah: Rights Of Children In Islam (טייל 1)
The beauty of this deen lies in the enormous efforts it takes in establishing justice and how it is vented out even at the most diminutive of levels. One of...
How Do We Discuss World Events With Our Children?
The world was watching the horrific events unfold in Palestine – the death toll has passed thousands with thousands leaving their home to seek refuge from Israel’s ground offensive. Muslims...
