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Arguments and rivalry are common between siblings, but repeated intimidation, aggression, or fear deserve closer attention. Learn what to watch for, when children shouldn’t be left to “work it out,” and how to respond when one child is repeatedly being hurt.
Read guide →Children notice who gets more time, freedom, help, praise, and attention. You don’t have to make everything exactly equal, but how you explain differences and respond to concerns about fairness can either ease sibling rivalry or intensify it.
Read guide →Jealousy between siblings often points to something deeper than bad behavior: a child may be wondering whether there is still enough attention, love, or belonging for them. Learn how to respond without shaming the feeling, feeding the rivalry, or making every interaction about being “fair.”
Read guide →Sibling conflict is normal, but constant fighting can wear down the whole family. Learn when to let children work things out, when to step in, and how to help them practice handling conflict without turning every disagreement into a battle.
Read guide →Digital communication strips away tone, facial expressions and context, so children need help learning to be kind, clear and respectful online. This guide helps you teach empathy, boundaries and responsibility when your child goes digital.
Read guide →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.
Read guide →Thoughtful guidance, expert perspectives, and practical reflections to help you better understand what your child may be experiencing.
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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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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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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48 min · Do our children really need more, or less? In this conversation with Lauren Booth, educator and children’s author Anisa Rasul shares…
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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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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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9 min · Children today spend most of their time with peers, and many rarely spend real time with grandparents or older people. In…
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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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Dr. Daniel Amen, child psychiatrist and founder of Amen Clinics, lays out what actually builds a mentally strong kid: not more rules or more…
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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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