Parenting Tips for Islamic Upbringing

The world is progressing at an extremely rapid rate in the social, cultural, economical, educational and political aspects. In this rapidly expanding era, we are required to pay our utmost attention to our children whose eyes are witnessing truly the most swift changes. Although our lives have become occupied due to our hectic routines and our personalities have become dull due to overwork and stress, yet we are required to spend some time with our children to make their upbringing loaded with Islamic wisdom and fascinating life lessons to upgrade their inner strength and alleviate their journey of growth and learning.

At young ages, the children are in dire need of constant advice and guidance from their parents, yet they are immature enough to not recognize their such needs because they somehow think they are the most right. Their excessive passion about offering their own colour in the painting of the world is so at the peak that they are not just prepared mentally and emotionally to listen to those who have, for multiple times, gone through the same paintings and are now thoroughly mature to share with them their experiences with outcomes. To deal with such rapidly growing minds and excessively expanding passion, the parents need to build up a meaningful and deep connection based on the blessed teachings of Islam with their children first to convey their message full of guidance to them. Conclusively, an Islamic upbringing is not merely about teaching your child how to offer prayer five times a day and how to read the Holy Quran, but also to instil love and attraction towards Allah and Islam with all possible means, as well as inducing the behaviour reflective of  moral values, goodness, modesty and humanity.