Parenting Tips and Encouragement

The Soul of your Child is like a precious diamond in the rough that has been entrusted into your care by Allah as a trust. This is indeed an awesome responsibility as well as a precious gift from Allah.  To be a more grateful servant unto Allah you need to shape your precious child (ren) into a beautiful Muslim Believer pleasing to the eye of Allah, Allah willing.   However, in todays world unfortunately this can be a very difficult task to raise children who are good Muslim Believers with the proper knowledge, adab ( manners) and tools to withstand from the waves of alienation, poytheism and deviation that rages on everyday in our lives.  At SurvivorsAreUs.com I work to ensure that all knowledge that is of the obligations on Muslims to know and follow is shared and reviewed consistently, Allah willing.

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Sample Letter excusing your child from kufr gatherings

Sample Letter for your childs teacher.

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Wise advise to give your children

Important advise for our youth.

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Etiquette towards your children

How to behave towards your children.

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Teaching children good manners

Good manners are an acquired trait that must be adopted from a young age

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Causes for delinquency: poverty and disputes

The causes and factors which lead to juvenile delinquency are numerous. Their corruption, ill-nature, and unpleasant circumstances are the direct result of life in a sinful society! Numerous, also, are the evil causes that affect juveniles, causing them to completely rebel against righteousness

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Causes for delinquency: divorce

One of the leading causes of a child's deviation is divorce, and what accompanies it of displacement, fragmentation and disunion of the family.

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Causes for delinquency: leisure time

One basic factor that may lead to a child's deviation is not benefiting from leisure time. It is obvious that during his early years, a child becomes extremely playful and adventure-minded. He is always in constant movement, playing with his mates, running and mounting sometimes, practicing sports and including in various kinds of athletic games

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Regarding Good Conduct to Ones Parents

Extracts from 'Saheeh al-Adab al-Mufrad' of Imaam Bukhaaree, checked by al-Albaanee

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Love Your Parents

The Importance of loving ad respecting our parents ad instillig these values into our own youth as well.

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Children A Source of Delight

Children are a source of delight and an adornment for the world granted by Allaah to their parents, they give vigour to the hearts, joy to the souls, pleasure to the eyes. They are the fruit from whom good is to be hoped for when they frequently supplicate: "Our Lord! Bestow on them your Mercy as they did bring me up when I was small"

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Advice for the New Mother

The coming of a first new baby is a time of excitement and every Muslim mother-to-be eagerly awaits the arrival of this special gift. It is easy to find the latest advice and useful practical tips and information about what to expect of the early weeks of motherhood on a day to day basis from Western books, but because they are bereft of the guidance of Islam, they contain little advice for Muslim Women when it comes coping spiritually with the coming of a baby. Every baby is different and some first time mothers find things quite easy and smooth. But nearly all will have moments when they struggle to reorganize their lives and many have a very trying time if their baby suffers from colic or has trouble settling down or if the birth was complicated and long. There are many things Muslim women can do to make this time as smooth as possible and increase their Eemân.

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How Parenting changes as you have more kids

Really funny and oh so very true

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You know you are a mom when....

Very funny real examples of motherhood

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ABC's of Parenting

The alphabet used in good advise for rearing our kids

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12 Tips for Childrearing

A very useful arttcle on child rearing.

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NURTURING THROUGH BREAST FEEDING

Some of the Importance on Breastfeeding our babies.

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Your child is a Commercial Target!

What is most striking about consumer culture, aside from its unprecedented ubiquity, is its celebration of consumption. The economy is our religious faith, consumption our orthodoxy. This becomes even more frightening when we discover that the targets are innocent children. This article attempts to reclaim our kids from a toxic commercial culture that has spun completely out of control. Children are innately innocent regardless of their belief system. Muslim children have a dual challenge - to knowingly miss the bandwagon of their peers and also to uphold their Islamic values.

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Learning Disabilities

What Is a Learning Disability? Unlike other disabilities, such as paralysis or blindness, a learning disability (LD) is a hidden handicap. A learning disability doesn't disfigure or leave visible signs that would invite others to be understanding or offer support. A woman once blurted to Wallace, "You seem so intelligent--you don't look handicapped!"

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How to Deal with a angry child

A fatwa on dealing with an angry child

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Fatwa best Way to deal with troublesome children

Concise fatwa with tips on becoming a better parent to improve your childs behavior, insha Alah.

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Week One Weekly Parenting Tips

Hug A Child! Try to notice as many good things your children do as possible!!!

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Week Two Weekly Parenting Tips

Don't Punish your child very often or very harshly!

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Week Three Weekly Parenting Tip

Always Be prompt when you reward or punish your child!

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Week Four Weekly Parenting Tip

Introduction to the Khalifah Parenting Tips

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12 tips for parents on Sex Education

Ideally sex education is not provided to kids in a reactionary fashion. Rather, it's given from the beginning in an indirect manner. This means the child has to have a strong sense of identity and an understanding of what his or her values are. "Parents are going to have sit down and explain their values to their own children. And this needs to start young, before the society influences them," says Marilyn Morris, a Christian, who is president and founder of Aim for Success. The organization promotes abstinence from sex through speeches and presentations to students in grades six to 12. The group is one of the largest providers of abstinence education in the United States.

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Fatwa on Mother getting Angry

I am a 30-years-old mother. I am single, divorced, and taking care of 4 kids on my own. I work, go to school, and live with my parents. Life has been tough with me and I believe I inherited some angry genes from my father's side of the family. I always get angry easily, become frustrated, loud, and a big procrastinator. My kids can't accept me the way I am. They usually don't listen to me, don't respect me much. They all under 10-years-old. I feel like I pass this anger mood down to them, they act out angry feelings with each others and always loud, and angry. I can't be happy or relaxed. I asked Allaah many times to make me feel better but I am loosing hope and patience daily. Please, advice.

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Teaching Children Good Manners

Just as a child should be taught ritual acts of worship, he should also be taught good habits and etiquette until they become second nature to him. The Prophet [peace be upon him (PBUH)] said: "Believers who have the most perfect Iman (faith) are those who have the best manners."

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Advise to give your Children

The issue of raising children is very important, the interest of both parents and children depends on it; the interest of the Ummah (Muslim society) as well as the community's future is directly impacted by our ability to succeed in this

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Education Against Islam What Muslims must do to combat this

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Teaching our children the value of time

It is hard to imagine that there are parents who do not spend any time talking or playing with their children because they consider it a waste of time. But, true wasting of time comes when we spend hours without doing anything productive. Of course, no one can spend all his/her time with their children because everyone has other duties to attend to. But, nonetheless, we cannot and should not give up the precious moments we do have.

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Teen Dawa Mission Possible

Some parental strategies and techniques for success in presenting da'wah to their children.

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Encouraging Children to Pray

As Muslim mothers there is a large amount of responsibility on our shoulders to do our best in teaching our children proper Islamic manners. Begining with the basics in Islam of tawheed and prayer are very useful for positive character building. This is an article that details when to begin the impotant lessons of prayer to our children.

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Muslim names for girls and boys

This is a very useful article about what are halal (permissable) and harram (forbidden) names for our children and selves with validation. Lists of Halal (permissable) Muslim girl names and Muslim boy names

Muslim Girl Names

Muslim Boy Names