As a child leaves infancy and approaches toddlerhood, one of the tasks parents face is introducing the child to the peer group. How do parents help their child become a socially competent?
Young people are very vulnerable to the influences of society, their friends, TV, adults and those that appear to be fashionable in the music and fashion industries. They may be teased for being too "chicken" to try this type of intoxicant.
Society's problems are not the problems of "those people out there". They are our problems, and if we ignore them they will come creeping up to us at one point. As Muslim parents we need to do something about these challenges.