Values & Character

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…

Our Ways in Raising Children, Part 1

58 min · In the first part of his series “Our Ways” on raising children, Sheikh Ali Hammuda argues that raising righteous, capable children…

There’s More to Raising Children Than You Think

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Who Are Your Child’s Friends?

12 min · Friends shape who our children become, and no friendship is neutral. In Episode 7 of Raising Beautiful Hearts, Ustadha Hina Khan-Mukhtar…

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…

Why Won’t My Child Say Salam?

11 min · Many parents feel embarrassed when their child won’t say salam. In Episode 4 of Raising Beautiful Hearts, Ustadha Hina Khan-Mukhtar and…

How to Say No to Your Kids and Get Them to Listen

19 min · Saying no is part of loving your child, but how do you set limits without becoming harsh, or giving in to…

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,…

Teach Your Child This Before Anything Else: Adab

22 min · When a scholar was asked what parents should teach their children first, he didn’t name a fiqh book or a list…

The Quranic Way to Escape the Age of Distraction

32 min · Shaykh Hamza Yusuf unpacks Surah al-Asr — just three verses, but so central that Imam Ash-Shafi’i reportedly said it alone would…

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…

How to Raise Children in Islamic Way? Great Lessons From the Mother of Imam Ash-Shafi’i

12 min · Imam Ash-Shafi’i — founder of one of the four major schools of Islamic law, and the first scholar to systematize the…

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…

The War on Kids in the Modern Muslim Family

12 min · Sheikh Mohammad Elshinawy opens with a question worth sitting with: people have parented successfully across nearly all of human history, so…

How to Raise Confident Muslim Children With Emotional Strength and Confidence

37 min · Opening a series on raising righteous and effective Muslim children, Sheikh Ali Hammuda tells of meeting the modest, barely-educated father of…

Advice for Mothers: Leading by Example

12 min · Dr. Haifaa Younis opens with a hadith: nothing brings a servant closer to Allah than fulfilling the obligations He’s made binding.

The Relationship Between Parents and Children

40 min · Sheikh Belal Assaad tackles a subject he calls sensitive: what parents and children truly owe each other in Islam. He grounds…

Teaching Methods for Inspiring the Students of the Future

18 min · Though addressed to teachers, veteran biology teacher Joe Ruhl’s TEDx talk offers a framework any parent can use at home: what…

Teaching Kids Finance: How to Be a Great Financial Role Model

21 min · Financial planner Chad Willardson joins Smart Money Parenting host Scott Donnell to unpack what it actually means to be a financial…

Home Sweet Home (Part 2/3): Children, Parents & Relatives

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…