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Values & Character

Passing on the values and character that will guide your child long after you are not there to remind them.

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

Values & CharacterEarly Childhood – Teen · 48 min

Kids Need Less: Here’s Why

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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Values & CharacterMiddle Childhood – Teen · 46 min

Reflections: 12 Years of Homeschooling

46 min · As his eldest son prepares to graduate, Shaykh Ismail Kamdar looks back on twelve years of homeschooling his children: why he…

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Values & CharacterEarly Childhood – Teen · 9 min

How to Teach Your Kids to Handle Conflict Prophetically

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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Values & CharacterEarly Childhood – Teen · 9 min

Why Don’t Kids Respect Elders Anymore?

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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Values & CharacterEarly Childhood – Teen · 57 min

Mistakes, Mercy & Motherhood

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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Values & CharacterEarly Childhood – Teen · 23 min

Advice & Tips on How to Raise Children in This Land

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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