At the start of the year, like millions of other people, I took some time to reflect on what I want the New Year to be like. For me, and for probably many people reading this, New Year’s reflection is usually more focused towards spiritual, personal, educational and financial improvements not necessarily things like Islamic […]
5 Practical Ways to Help Your Child (and You) Learn Arabic
This post contains affiliate links. Please read my disclosure for more information. I’m on a mission for the kids and me to learn Arabic and make it our dominant language of conversation. I can write and read Arabic quite well, but I can only understand few words right now. With the kids, I want this […]
The Power of a Parent’s Prayer
My Yoruba people always talk about the importance of a parent’s prayer in a child’s life. They attribute a child’s success in life to his/her parents’ prayers, and there is always this caution that parents should never curse their child because whatever you say to your child will come to pass. But thousands of years before […]
Parenting and Your Personal Iman (faith)
It is widely said that the home is a child’s first school and that the parents are the first teachers. Now, to be a teacher, you need a certain level of knowledge in the subject that you are going to be teaching, and some experience teaching that subject, if possible. Although everyone will agree that […]
What is Your Parenting ‘Why’?
I’ve always been the type of person that moved from one milestone to another, ticking the list as she goes along. Secondary school? Check. University? Check. NYSC? Done. Etc. so it was only logical that because I wanted kids in the near future, marriage was the next milestone after school. Like every other stage of […]
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