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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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22 min · Gentleness beautifies everything it touches. Ustadha Hosai Mojaddidi explains why knowing your own temperament is the first step toward the Prophet’s…
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9 min · Disagreements are part of life, between siblings, friends, neighbors, and even between parents and children. In the final episode of Raising…
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19 min · Saying no is part of loving your child, but how do you set limits without becoming harsh, or giving in to…
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12 min · When a child forgets, refuses, or pushes back, it’s easy to react with a lecture, a guilt trip, or a rebuke,…
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22 min · When a scholar was asked what parents should teach their children first, he didn’t name a fiqh book or a list…
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When a father at a Q&A asks how to raise Muslim children, especially daughters, in the West, Nouman Ali Khan reframes the whole question:…
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57 min · With her three sons now grown and leaving home, writer and educator Ustadha Hina Khan-Mukhtar looks back with unusual honesty on…
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33 min · Speaking to parents worried about raising children amid today’s competing pressures, Shaykha Umm Jamaal ud-Din — a Sydney-based educator, revert, and…
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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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6 min · Some phrases slip out in frustration and are forgotten by the parent within the hour — but not by the child.…
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13 min · Spencer Russell, a former kindergarten and first-grade teacher, used to think some kids simply couldn’t focus — until he noticed his…
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5 min · When a child is in full meltdown, our instinct is to talk them down — to explain, soothe, or reason with…
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10 min · Emma Hubbard breaks down shitsuke, a Japanese concept of discipline built on instruction and practice rather than punishment. In her explanation,…
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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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23 min · Since the Quran and Sunnah give broad principles for raising children rather than rigid, place-specific rules, Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi turns…
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12 min · Sheikh Mohammad Elshinawy opens with a question worth sitting with: people have parented successfully across nearly all of human history, so…
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16 min · School principal James Cowper argues that kids today aren’t disconnected — they’re deeply connected to one another — and asks what…
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21 min · Communication professor Bruce Lambert presents five principles drawn from Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish’s parenting book How to Talk So Kids…
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21 min · Financial planner Chad Willardson joins Smart Money Parenting host Scott Donnell to unpack what it actually means to be a financial…
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80 min · This is the final part of a three-part seerah-based series on building a strong Muslim family, focused on marriage and in-laws.…
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48 min · This is part two of a three-part seerah-based series on building a strong Muslim family, tracing the Prophet Muhammad’s example with…
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8 min · Drawing on developmental research, including a 2017 study led by Vaheshta Sethna and Paul Ramchandani, the video explores associations between fathers’…
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15 min · Emma Hubbard, a pediatric occupational therapist, walks through six patterns she encourages parents to pay closer attention to. They are an…
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