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AI can explain a difficult math concept, quiz your child before a test, help them brainstorm ideas and give feedback on their writing. It can also write the essay, solve the problem and hand them an answer before they’ve had a chance to think. For parents, the challenge isn’t simply deciding whether AI belongs in homework. It’s helping children learn how to use it without handing over the learning itself.
Read guide →Many games no longer make money only when someone buys the game. Children may encounter virtual currencies, character skins, battle passes, limited-time offers and loot boxes while they’re already playing. None of that means every in-game purchase is bad, but children benefit from understanding that the game isn’t only giving them things to play. It may also be giving them reasons to spend.
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Michael Abraham walks through fifteen moments from the teaching of the Prophet ﷺ, as reported in hadith, and draws parenting lessons from each. He…
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Michael Abraham, an educator who works with schools on instructional supervision, describes what he has noticed in classrooms about how a father’s presence or…
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In a talk he gave at a convention, Imam Tom Facchine reflects on what it means to be a father in Islam. He describes…
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In this talk, Shaykh Waleed Basyouni speaks to three audiences about the role of fathers: fathers, mothers, and children. He encourages fathers to see…
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48 min · Do our children really need more, or less? In this conversation with Lauren Booth, educator and children’s author Anisa Rasul shares…
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5 min · In this short clip, Sheikh Belal Assaad describes five patterns that can make family life unhealthy: substance abuse, constant conflict, violence,…
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46 min · As his eldest son prepares to graduate, Shaykh Ismail Kamdar looks back on twelve years of homeschooling his children: why he…
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9 min · Children today spend most of their time with peers, and many rarely spend real time with grandparents or older people. In…
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Dr. Daniel Amen, child psychiatrist and founder of Amen Clinics, lays out what actually builds a mentally strong kid: not more rules or more…
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56 min · In this wide-ranging interview, psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen lays out the framework behind his book Raising Mentally Strong Kids: get clear…
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11 min · Asked how to handle a rude, adolescent daughter, Sheikh Assim Al-Hakeem turns the question back on the parent. He describes his…
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36 min · Closing a four-part series, Sheikh Ali Hammuda maps a child’s development onto six age brackets drawn from the Quran and hadith,…
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