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Small, repeatable ways to deepen your bond with your child.
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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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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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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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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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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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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8 min · This video centers on serve and return: the everyday back-and-forth between a baby’s small signals and a parent’s response. It looks…
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20 min · This video offers ten phrases intended to help young children develop language for understanding and communicating emotions. Its central idea is…
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15 min · This video argues that academic success alone doesn’t guarantee wisdom, resilience, or good judgment, and offers ten daily habits meant to…
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10 min · This video argues that real confidence is built through thousands of small daily moments rather than big speeches or expensive opportunities.…
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13 min · This video identifies eight phrases it argues can undermine connection when they become repeated patterns — from sibling comparisons and negative…
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61 min · Sheikh Belal Assaad, a family and marriage counselor, lays out the Islamic foundations of a healthy family. He traces the theological…
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6 min · Dr. Omar Suleiman connects gratitude and patience as two expressions of the same underlying quality, then applies this to family life,…
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12 min · Dr. Shefali Tsabary, a clinical psychologist, invites parents to consider how parenthood can bring their own emotional history to the surface.
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8 min · A seven-year-old TED speaker, Molly Wright, explains with help from a live baby demonstration why she believes simple everyday interactions like…
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13 min · A practical three-step approach for parents who find themselves giving the same instruction again and again. The video argues that repeated…
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