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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 →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 →Online conflict is part of many teens’ digital lives, but when it crosses into bullying, exclusion or emotional harm, the effects can be serious. This guide helps you recognize cyberbullying, support your teen through online drama, and know when it’s time to ask for help.
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.
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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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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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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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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7 min · A calm, shame-free guide to puberty for Muslim boys, covering voice and body changes, wet dreams (ihtilam), ghusl, reaching religious maturity…
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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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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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38 min · After more than a decade of homeschooling his four children, Shaykh Ismail Kamdar shares eight lessons for making homeschooling work today:…
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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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12 min · Friends shape who our children become, and no friendship is neutral. In Episode 7 of Raising Beautiful Hearts, Ustadha Hina Khan-Mukhtar…
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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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” In Episode 5 of Raising Beautiful Hearts, Ustadha Hina Khan-Mukhtar and Ustadha Hosai Mojaddidi explain why a child’s developing brain needs parents to…
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Responsible children aren’t built by strict rules or constant reminders. They’re built through small, repeated, everyday choices, real tasks, small decisions, and mistakes children…
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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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When a father at a Q&A asks how to raise Muslim children, especially daughters, in the West, Nouman Ali Khan reframes the whole question:…
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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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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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6 min · Some phrases slip out in frustration and are forgotten by the parent within the hour — but not by the child.…
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5 min · When a child is in full meltdown, our instinct is to talk them down — to explain, soothe, or reason with…
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7 min · Using four imagined children, this explainer walks through psychologist Diana Baumrind’s four classic parenting styles, authoritarian, permissive, authoritative, and neglectful, and…
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7 min · Closing his series on raising mentally strong kids, Dr. Daniel Amen shares sobering data on rising anxiety, depression, and suicidal thoughts…
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35 min · Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi opens with a confession: 25 years ago, as a new student of Islam, he went looking for…
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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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12 min · Sheikh Mohammad Elshinawy opens with a question worth sitting with: people have parented successfully across nearly all of human history, so…
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30 min · Hisham Abu Yusuf structures his talk around a saying he attributes to Ali ibn Abi Talib: play with children for seven…
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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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40 min · Sheikh Belal Assaad tackles a subject he calls sensitive: what parents and children truly owe each other in Islam. He grounds…
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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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18 min · Though addressed to teachers, veteran biology teacher Joe Ruhl’s TEDx talk offers a framework any parent can use at home: what…
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21 min · Communication professor Bruce Lambert presents five principles drawn from Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish’s parenting book How to Talk So Kids…
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21 min · Financial planner Chad Willardson joins Smart Money Parenting host Scott Donnell to unpack what it actually means to be a financial…
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80 min · This is the final part of a three-part seerah-based series on building a strong Muslim family, focused on marriage and in-laws.…
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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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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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6 min · This video argues that a child’s long-term success depends less on obedience than on the capacity to think independently, since eventually…
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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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11 min · This video presents ten everyday habits intended to help children become more resilient, confident and emotionally aware. They include staying calm…
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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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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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34 min · Ustadha Hina Khan-Mukhtar shares five practical strategies she has observed in families raising confident, grounded Muslim children. She begins by emphasizing…
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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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5 min · A teenager shares her own perspective on being parented. She talks about how phone rules might reasonably differ by environment and…
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12 min · A family therapist names a specific, destructive relationship pattern he calls the parent-teen control battle. It is a repeating cycle where…
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9 min · Dr. Cameron Caswell, a teen psychologist, reframes conflict with teenagers as something parents may have more influence over than it seems.
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” He argues that it carries contempt and points toward the wrong solutions entirely. ” He also looks at how every generation has feared…
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14 min · A counterintuitive approach to backtalk: instead of immediately explaining, arguing, or lecturing, respond with one short, neutral boundary and then stop…
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