SUMMARY: Children benefit physically and psychologically in their development from fine motor skills. Adult caregivers should make an effort to tune these skills in their children.
SUMMARY: The practice of giving children allowances has potential advantages in teaching accountability, earning, and fiscal responsibility, but also risks potential disadvantages in materialism, entitlement, and irresponsibility.
In the last few days, India bombed Pakistan, and Pakistan has struck back. Both countries have nuclear weapons. Scientists say even a limited nuclear war between the two will cause famine around the world.
SUMMARY: The services and familial burdens and communal strength that mothers take on has been richly honored in Islam, and fits the model of the "Servant Leader" where leadership is first and foremost a priceless service to its charges.
SUMMARY: The perseverance, courage and determination of Islam's first martyr, the socially disadvantaged but characterful Sumayyah bint Harith, is a powerful example to Muslims today and especially to mothers raising upright families.