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Letting go a little at a time so your child can grow into capable and self-reliant.
Thoughtful guidance, expert perspectives, and practical reflections to help you better understand what your child may be experiencing.
60 min · In the final part of his series “Our Ways,” Sheikh Ali Hammuda walks through the stages of a child’s growth that…
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7 min · Using four imagined children, this explainer walks through psychologist Diana Baumrind’s four classic parenting styles, authoritarian, permissive, authoritative, and neglectful, and…
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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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11 min · A step-by-step approach to responding to a child’s meltdown with calm presence rather than immediately trying to stop or correct it.…
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