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    Don’t Make Gaming the Villain

    When gaming becomes a source of family conflict, it’s easy for the game itself to become the enemy. But to your child, gaming may be much more than staring at a screen. It might be where they spend time with friends, master difficult skills, build elaborate worlds, compete, create, laugh or simply unwind. You don’t have to love gaming, or allow unlimited access to it, to take your child’s interest seriously. Understanding what your child gets from gaming may even make it easier to set healthier boundaries around it.

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Parent-Child ConnectionEarly Childhood – Teen · 60 min

Our Ways in Raising Children, Part 4

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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Parent-Child ConnectionEarly 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 ConnectionMiddle Childhood – Teen

One Look in the Classroom

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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Parent-Child ConnectionEarly Childhood – Teen · 22 min

Be Gentle: A Talk for Parents and Teachers

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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Parent-Child ConnectionMiddle Childhood – Teen · 50 min

When Not to Homeschool

50 min · Homeschooling isn’t right for every family or every season of life. In this candid talk, Shaykh Ismail Kamdar, a long-time homeschooling…

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Parent-Child ConnectionEarly Childhood – Teen · 12 min

Conscious Parenting

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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Parent-Child ConnectionEarly Childhood – Middle Childhood · 13 min

Child Not Listening? Stop Repeating Yourself. Try This 3 Step Method Instead

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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