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Resilience

Helping your child bounce back from setbacks and disappointment.

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Thoughtful guidance, expert perspectives, and practical reflections to help you better understand what your child may be experiencing.

ResilienceAll ages · 28 min

How Gratitude Can Heal Your Trauma

28 min · Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan explores gratitude through the story of Musa (peace be upon him) and Bani Israel, newly free from…

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ResilienceMiddle Childhood – Teen · 11 min

How to Teach Your Kids Gratitude (Shukr)

11 min · In a world of constant comparison and instant gratification, children can easily feel dissatisfied, and even feel let down by Allah…

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ResilienceEarly Childhood – Teen · 24 min

How to Deal With Anxiety & Depression in Islam

24 min · Ustadh Muhammad Tim Humble traces a Quranic framework for anxiety, depression, and grief, starting with a simple but easy-to-miss point: much…

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ResilienceEarly Childhood – Teen · 7 min

5 Parenting Styles and Their Effects on Life

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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ResilienceMiddle Childhood – Teen · 14 min

How to Raise Successful Kids — Without Over-Parenting

14 min · Former Stanford dean Julie Lythcott-Haims argues that over-parenting, not under-parenting, is quietly damaging a generation of kids. She describes the ‘checklisted…

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ResiliencePreteen – Teen · 83 min

The Quran on Psychological Trauma

83 min · Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan argues that Western psychology and Quranic guidance start from different premises about human beings, one assuming people…

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