Do you find yourself yelling at your kids when you’re angry? Like when you’re late for your dentist appointment because they decided to play with your keys (and lost them)? Or maybe when they decided to draw on the carpet (again) despite your repeated reminder not to do so? Do you feel like a
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5 Parenting Strategies That Are Not Productive & What To Do Instead
Sometimes the only parenting strategies that we use are the ones that we ourselves were raised with. Maybe they were the ones that were popular at the time and everyone was doing it with their children. More often than not, we employ certain parenting strategies without realizing if they are effective or not. To
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[Productive Parenting – Part 3] Practical Engagement with Your Child
This is the last article in the “Productive Parenting” series. Part 1 and Part 2 spoke about the need for spending productive time with your children and engaging them in reading sessions, respectively. In this article, we explore how our conversations with our children could be more meaningful and what can be done to ensure we spend quality
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[Productive Parenting – Part 2] Reading with Your Child
In Part 1 of this series, we discussed some tools to develop the parent in you. In this article, we want to explore the power of storytelling. Stories are very powerful means to convey messages to children. This is one excellent tool of healthy parenting, helping you connect with your children and instilling a sense
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[Productive Parenting – Part 1] “I Have Become a Father! What’s Next?”
[This is a series of three parts on parenting from a father’s perspective.] I have three children. If I were to encapsulate what I learned about parenting from a father’s perspective in one sentence, I would say: “A child needs ‘a loving father’, not ‘a successful businessman!’”
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[Productive Parenting] Sibling Rivalry: The Good and The Bad
Sibling rivalry is as old as the two sons of Adam , Habeel and Qabeel. And we know the unfortunate way it ended. Allah tells about this common issue in great detail in surat Yusuf, chapter 12 of the Qur’an. Being a mother myself, I realized that – left unattended – these emotions can cause
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