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05-13-2009, 06:48 PM
Raising Our Future Generations (Part 5)
Strengthening the Foundation
Sheikh Younus Kathrada
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Ages 5-10
Children need a great deal of attention and parents have to realize that raising kids is a 24/7 job. Throwing them into child care just so you can relax and for whatever other excuses we come up with is truly an injustice and cop-out.
I do understand that in some cases people don’t have much of a choice, but for the most part we do and so I speak in these general terms. Particularly for those of us living here in the West, the vast majority of daycares are run by non-Muslims or “non-practicing” (I hate this term but use it only because the masses are familiar with it) Muslims.
It is quite rare to find good daycares run by adherent Muslims who will assist us in raising pious children. Therefore, unless you have the good fortune of having one of those around, avoid sending your kids to daycare as much as possible.
Unfortunately, they will be exposed to a great deal of un-Islamic activities and beliefs and they will not be taught Islamic manners and etiquettes.
However, if they are under your watchful eye, you can instill in them all those wonderful Islamic morals and habits; they’ll pray with you, you’ll be able to recite Quraan to them, teach them the du’aas (supplications) we say at certain times and so forth.
Do you really think they’re going to learn this from the daycares available to us? Parents, no one ever said raising kids was going to be easy!
The children are now ready to enter school. Most kids enter kindergarten at the age of five. So which school will you be sending your kid(s) to? The local Muslim/Islaamic School, the public school, a private school or the “home school”?
Strengthening the Foundation
Sheikh Younus Kathrada
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Ages 5-10
Children need a great deal of attention and parents have to realize that raising kids is a 24/7 job. Throwing them into child care just so you can relax and for whatever other excuses we come up with is truly an injustice and cop-out.
I do understand that in some cases people don’t have much of a choice, but for the most part we do and so I speak in these general terms. Particularly for those of us living here in the West, the vast majority of daycares are run by non-Muslims or “non-practicing” (I hate this term but use it only because the masses are familiar with it) Muslims.
It is quite rare to find good daycares run by adherent Muslims who will assist us in raising pious children. Therefore, unless you have the good fortune of having one of those around, avoid sending your kids to daycare as much as possible.
Unfortunately, they will be exposed to a great deal of un-Islamic activities and beliefs and they will not be taught Islamic manners and etiquettes.
However, if they are under your watchful eye, you can instill in them all those wonderful Islamic morals and habits; they’ll pray with you, you’ll be able to recite Quraan to them, teach them the du’aas (supplications) we say at certain times and so forth.
Do you really think they’re going to learn this from the daycares available to us? Parents, no one ever said raising kids was going to be easy!
The children are now ready to enter school. Most kids enter kindergarten at the age of five. So which school will you be sending your kid(s) to? The local Muslim/Islaamic School, the public school, a private school or the “home school”?