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Parent-Child CommunicationEarly Childhood – Teen

15 Ways to Teach Like the Prophet ﷺ

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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Parent-Child CommunicationEarly Childhood – Teen · 9 min

How to Teach Your Kids to Handle Conflict Prophetically

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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Parent-Child CommunicationEarly Childhood – Teen · 57 min

Mistakes, Mercy & Motherhood

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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Parent-Child CommunicationEarly Childhood – Teen · 33 min

Advice for Raising Steadfast Children in Times of Fitnah

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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Parent-Child CommunicationEarly Childhood – Teen · 56 min

The Brain Expert: How to Raise Mentally Resilient Children

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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Parent-Child CommunicationEarly Childhood – Teen · 23 min

Advice & Tips on How to Raise Children in This Land

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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Parent-Child CommunicationMiddle Childhood – Teen · 11 min

Why Is My Teenage Daughter So Rude to Me?

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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Parent-Child CommunicationEarly Childhood – Teen · 16 min

How to Connect With Kids: 3 Principles from a Principal

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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Parent-Child CommunicationEarly Childhood – Teen · 48 min

Home Sweet Home (Part 2/3): Children, Parents & Relatives

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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Parent-Child CommunicationEarly Childhood – Preteen · 7 min

How Adults Teach Children Courage

7 min · A video looks at how a child’s everyday questions, however small they seem, can function as an act of trust, and…

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