Parenting

Parents may lie to their children thinking they are protecting or preserving a child’s mental health.  However, the National Institute of Health found children who are routinely told untruths by their parents experience a higher incidence of emotional difficulties, damaged trust in the paren

“It’s much more fun to play on a computer than to go outside,” a student once said at an Islamic School. It made me wonder—have today’s teens started choosing screens over sunlight? While technology offers education, connection, and entertainment, too much of it can make it distant from reality.

Children are among the greatest blessings in this world. Allah says in the Quran:

Does life ever seem to play out unfairly for you? Does it often feel like the walls are closing in on you and you can’t get out of a situation? Or that everything that is bad is only happening to you?

Ever catch yourself reprimanding your children in the same style as your mother? Or cracking jokes and wrestling with your kids just like your dad did? Sometimes you might even find yourself using the same strict tone your grandfather might have used with you as a kid.