Recommended for Ages 4 – 5 Can you think back to your first encounter with learning the Qur’an? My earliest recollections of an Islamic education were formed on the carpet of my father’s living room; sitting cross-legged with my younger brother across from our Ustadh and a pile of Arabic texts strewn between us. To …
Recommended for Ages 4 to 8 Don’t we all just love the good old days when kids were kids? Girls passed time with playdates featuring rag dolls and hopscotch down the block, while boys got up to mischief on the playground, satisfied with pretend games like cops and thieves, or invisible ninjas. That was before the world was …
Fasting in the month of Ramadhan is an act of worship which Allah ordained on all Muslims of sound health that have come of age. This was revealed in the Qur’an, where He says: يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ O ye who believe! Fasting is …
Ages 2-3 The terrible twos –the period every parent dreads, and makes you wonder how the adorable baby you had a few months ago transformed into this little monster. Tantrums, grandiosity and irrational behavior are all hallmarks of toddlerhood, which has been famously described as the “celebration of me.” At this crucial stage, children are …
Ages 6-8 Stories are such a huge part of our lives, that they come as naturally as eating to human beings. A story is basically any series of events on a particular topic related by a person to an audience -be it sharing how our day went over dinner, or relaxing with a book or …
Ages 6-8 Can you think back to your first encounter with learning the Qur’an? I bet it was sometime in your early childhood; around three to five years old. To the average pre-schooler in the beginning stages of Islamic studies, this activity is little more than a performance to roll off weird, melodious words from …
Ages 6-8 A major feature of societies in all parts of the world are the norms and values they hold dear, which in turn influence their concepts of daily life. These values are usually passed from generation to generation and eventually become the lifeblood of a functional society. In an effort to raise children who …
6 – 8 Years When we look around us, it’s hard to imagine that there was a time when things weren’t as sophisticated as they are today. An easy example of this point is the comparison between life while we were growing up and that in which our children are now growing in. Can they …
Science & Craft Our kids are growing up in a new age, in a kind of reality we only dreamt about when we were young or speculated about through watching movies like Back to the Future. They have access to knowledge at their fingertips, manned drones, Virtual Reality partners, virtual voice assistants and humanoids taking …
9 – 12 years I do a lot of research about different populations and one of the more interesting projects I’ve worked on recently was on Muslim Kids around the world. The world is changing and the new generation of kids are very different from the kids of the previous generation. This seems like an …
