Sumayya Khan

In our globally connected world, children and adolescents need to gain knowledge about our world with a compassionate and critical view geared toward making it a better place for people to live. One of the ways in which our youth can gain that knowledge is through reading.

Children are born with a natural wonder about the world around them. Babies first take in the world through their eyesight and hearing, but as soon as they can grasp with their hands and kick with their feet, they want to eagerly explore their physical surroundings.

Remember the days when you used to play outside until the sunset? How we biked, kicked a ball around, and roamed the neighbourhood with our friends without any adult supervision? Much of my childhood was like that until I went to high school in the mid-2000s.

Your teenager or young adult children are happening into one of the most tumultuous phases of their lives inside and out.

Parenting is one of the hardest jobs in the world. No doubt the amount of stress accumulated in such a job reaches monumental levels. Moreover, it is a job unique to everyone – no one else will parent the same way as you because each family has its own distinctive needs and culture.

According to the Handbook of Clinical Neurology, we spend one third of our lives sleeping.¹ For those of us who live busy lives, this fact may come as a shock and surprise as it seems like a waste of time!

Having aching feet and tight back muscles after standing too long in taraweeh prayer?