parenting

Parents' love and acceptance are crucial during the teens, when most youth, Muslim and non-Muslim, are struggling. How did some parents do it? How do we raise righteouse children?
 

Samana Siddiqui shares her experience with Muslim summer camps, and how they can effectively build and strengthen a young Muslim's faith, especially if s/he is normally not surrounded by Muslims during the school year. 

Choosing a career requires not just following our personal interest and inclination. It also calls for wisdom, a broad understanding of market trends, and a solid Islamic perspective, among other things, to make the right choice that will benefit us in our Deen (religion) and Dunya (worldly interests). 

As long as our children are in the public school, Islamic education will take a back seat. However, we must do everything we can to minimize the harm of the public schools and to maximize the opportunities for Islamic education.

You've just found out your son or daughter is getting sex education at public school and you want to give them the Islamic perspective on it. Here are some tips that can help you talk to your kids about the “s” word.

Is your child struggling in school or could do better? A straighforward and practical way to help your children onto the path of academic success, Insha Allah, is offered with these brief but effective 25 tips. 

"Seek first to understand, then to be understood," recommends Stephen Covey (1990). When you listen carefully to another person, you give that person "psychological air."