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  • Repressed Emotions is a Woman’s Disease Caused by Incorrect Upbringing

    My chest is heavy. A volcano is about to erupt inside me. I need to cry. I do not want to speak with anyone. Similar sentences are repeated by many wives. Sometimes these words are spoken in a loud voice in front of others and sometimes the woman says them to herself. Women talk and talk and repress their feelings. The volcanoes remain inside them waiting.. More

  • Eight Tips to Help Baby Sleep

    Many mothers suffer from the problems associated with their child’s sleeping patterns, and this problem affects both of the mother and the baby. To overcome this problem, here are some tips to help your baby have a good night's sleep: 1- Do not put a pillow under the baby’s head during the first months. This can lead to a bent backbone.. More

  • Children’s Delinquency is the Price of the Absence of Motherhood

    There is a type of mother who forsakes her children and leaves them to face the surrounding harmful influences. In this way, she unintentionally ruins her children and reaps the bitter fruits of this. Recently, a newspaper published a story of a 16-year-old boy who deals in the weapons (pistols) that he makes. He has been caught several times but manages.. More

  • Should My Child Forgive or Retaliate?

    There are two different upbringing-related attitudes which are adopted by families. Some parents teach their children not to leave their rights and to pay their abusers back twofold. While others prefer tolerance, forgiveness, and ending quarrels. Each party has reasonable grounds. Families who teach their children to treat others in the same manner.. More

  • Maids & Baby-Sitters - A Domestic Time Bomb - I

    A maid puts a baby in the refrigerator to make him stop crying, which he does upon feeling the cold. Another one pricks a child's head with pins when he shouts, to keep him silent and to put him to sleep for a long time. When she knows that her employer does not want her and that he plans to send fire her, she puts his child in the washing machine... More

  • Artificial Motherhood Defeated

    Imagine if two mothers meet somewhere and each of them has a baby, one of them breastfeeds her child while the other bottle-feeds hers. What if they converse and each of them explains why she feeds her infant in the way she chooses, noting that they are both equally enthusiastic about their choice and insist upon it. Who would prevail, and who would.. More

  • How the Prophet Raised His Daughters

    How the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, Looked After His Children During Their Youth When the daughter grows up, the parents should teach her the rights of Allah The Almighty, parents, and others. They should also teach her good manners and how to behave in different situations. Daughters should be taught to adhere to Hijab and to keep.. More

  • If You Have a Child, Be a Child With Him

    My friend said to me, I was pregnant with my first child. One day, my husband and I went on a picnic. In the park that we went to, we saw a man kneeling and playing with his child who was still crawling. My husband criticized the action of this father, and it seemed as if he pitied him for being criticized by other people who were visiting the garden.. More

  • Breastfeeding is Beneficial for Mothers too

    Researchers at the scientific research center of the Douglas Hospital of Canada, which is linked to McGill University, conducted a study on the responses of 25 breastfeeding mothers and another 25 bottle-feeding mothers, who have one or more children. The mothers were exposed to different stressful situations either emotional, such as watching saddening.. More

  • Maids & Baby-Sitters - A Domestic Time Bomb - II

    Feelings of Motherhood Dr. Al-‘Aarif Billaah Muhammad Hasan, Professor of Psychology at ‘Ain Shams University, says, In principle, the children’s upbringing depends on the mother because her role in taking care of the child exceeds the material care that is represented in feeding and dressing and providing him with the basic needs... More

  • Helping Our Girls Adjust Post Marriage

    Is it possible for a girl who is pampered by her mother, who considers her the apple of her eye, to be a successful wife? Could she bear the responsibility of taking care of a husband and family? This question is for every mother who is not keen on gradually and methodically teaching her daughter basic household skills, which later causes her marriage.. More

  • When Innocence Is Killed

    I was shocked to see a five-year-old girl approaching me sporting a top that bared her stomach and midriff, a manicure and and elaborate makeup, with high-heeled shoes and a haircut like a dancer. I was shocked because I did not find my beautiful relative as I imagined her; she did not have a ribbon in her hair, or wear a simple but pretty brocaded.. More

  • Wives, Do Not Combine Two Faults!

    The unshed tears, the shaking voice and the chattering teeth were the answers of the wife to the inquiries of the civil servant who called her to ask about a commercial enterprise that was registered in her name as she inherited it from her father. The official pitied her and tried to calm her down. After she managed to regain her self-control, she.. More

  • How the Prophet Raised His Daughters

    The Dowry of the Daughters of the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam The dowry is one of the wife’s rights. It has to be paid by a man to his wife. Allah The Almighty Says (what means): {And give the women [upon marriage] their [bridal] gifts graciously.} [Quran 4:4] The Sunnah of the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, teaches.. More

  • Stopping the cycle of disobedience

    First, parents need to make their intention for the sake of Allah and remind themselves that they are disciplining their children to help them do their Islamic duty towards their parents and their family. Teaching a child to listen is not just about establishing parental authority or showing the child who's boss, it is basically about helping them do.. More