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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 ConnectionAll ages · 59 min

Our Ways in Raising Children, Part 2

59 min · In part two of his series “Our Ways,” Sheikh Ali Hammuda describes three styles of parenting: the firefighter who steps in…

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Parent-Child ConnectionAll ages · 77 min

There’s More to Raising Children Than You Think

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Parent-Child ConnectionAll ages · 8 min

Parenting Lessons from the Quran: Listening to Your Children

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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

Fatherhood & Islam

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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Parent-Child ConnectionEarly Childhood – Teen

The Role of Fathers in Islam

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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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 ConnectionPreteen – Teen · 9 min

Handling Difficult Teenagers

9 min · A teenager once mocked the call to prayer, loudly, in front of the Prophet ﷺ. Instead of punishing him, the Prophet…

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Parent-Child ConnectionEarly Childhood – Teen · 5 min

Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family

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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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 – Middle Childhood · 12 min

When Your Child Misbehaves, Don’t Do This

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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Parent-Child ConnectionEarly Childhood · 8 min

How ‘Serve and Return’ Supports Your Baby’s Developing Brain

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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Parent-Child ConnectionEarly Childhood · 20 min

10 Phrases That Build Emotional Intelligence in Kids Under 5

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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Parent-Child ConnectionEarly Childhood – Teen · 15 min

10 Daily Habits That Raise Wise Kids, Not Just Smart Ones

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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Parent-Child ConnectionEarly Childhood – Teen · 10 min

10 Parental Daily Habits That Raise Confident Kids

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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Parent-Child ConnectionEarly Childhood – Teen · 13 min

8 Phrases Wise Parents Never Say to Their Children

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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Parent-Child ConnectionPreteen – Teen · 8 min

10 Daily Habits for Raising Great Teenagers

8 min · This video argues that raising a resilient, confident teenager comes down to small daily habits rather than one big conversation. It…

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Parent-Child ConnectionPreteen – Teen · 7 min

My Parents Are Verbally & Mentally Abusive!

7 min · Responding to a question about parents who are verbally and emotionally abusive while using religious language to justify controlling behavior, Sheikh…

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Parent-Child ConnectionEarly Childhood – Teen · 61 min

Home Sweet Home (Part 1/3): Raising Children

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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Parent-Child ConnectionEarly Childhood – Teen · 6 min

Family First: The Prophetic Blueprint

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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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 · 8 min

How Every Child Can Thrive by Five

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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