Every person in this world of 7.5 billion Population has personality differences. They do not look same, talk the same way, nothing resembles with each other, even sibling is also not the same. Their individual needs are also different from each other. And when we talk about, learning level and study skills, it also could not be alike. In a young age, when a human-being start to understand the matters and getting familiarization with the things. This is the high stage of the observation and learning power. But birds are good in fly and monkeys jump, A caterpillar crawls and a kitten runs well. You can’t expect from a monkey to swim.
Every child in the process of learning and personality development react on the way which may differ him from others. I have three children, 9 yrs,8 yrs, and 4 yrs. They are too young but their personality differences and interests are very controversial. Parenting is not to stop them from learning it is to encourage them to explore the world and grow with healthy minds set. Parenting is to be smart and catch every opportunity without missing any stone. Some of the methods are highlighted here for the smart guide of parents who are worried about less interest of their children in the study.
Provide books of child’s interest, games, the bio of players, stories, geography, cooking, news, facts, engineering.
DISCUSS curriculum problem issues and try to solve.
Setting goals and offering reward after completing goals.
Parenting is not ruling, forcing or pouring ideas on a child. It should be like a google search engine takes you to the content and map and direct one into the way but it cant force to must go ahead the same way.
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Am I missing something?
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A good parenting demands devotion, sacrifice, emotional attachment, care, responsibility, and Love. A baby can’t demand, can’t speak and can’t show his needs, but he/she is ↲↳↳♥👅👅👅☖
listening/feeling/observing. A picture of these days is saving in his Memory. So the first year is most important to nourish or spoil his/her personal skills.
Children are gifts from Allah. And Parents are responsible to raise a child and full fill His all physical, emotional needs as well as bringing him a good human being.
A good parenting start from the very first day of his birth. Some parents ask me how? Probably, most parents think that parenting means upbringing a child with fulfilling physical demand calls a good parenting.If you also think this. I must say no, it’s not. Islam says a Muslim child has four rights towards his parent.When a baby born with all emotional and physical needs, spiritual needs also a part of parenting.
Give him/her a good mother(Mary with good women so that she good give the child good qualities)
Give him/her good name(Because name effects in development of a good/bad personality)
Give him/her good education
And marry him/her with a good spouse)
It’s clear that Good parenting starts from the first day of birth when we give a baby a name and fulfill his/her other needs.
And parenting ever lasts till the marry.
Fathers and mothers will equally be asked about their children. Hence fathers maintenance to fulfill the physical and emotional needs and mothers are responsible teach values and in building good personality.
Here we highlight some perspectives of an Islamiclamic parenting.
1.Spiritual needs of a Baby
Pray for the baby and reciting of Quran in daily. Because in effect on the baby’s personality and keep him away from bad eyes and devils.
Say Bismillah every time when you lift the baby, wearing clothes, Feeding and even if he fell down.
Every work you do start from right side of wearing clothes and shoes, giving a toy in his/her hand, mother feed, combing
Recite some Dua’s loudly for him like for drinking milk and feeding other foods or reply when he/she sneezes
He is listening to you, and he is also observing everything around him to provide a calm, pleasant and religious environment around him/her.
2: Emotional needs a Baby
Talk to him, he is listening to you, so you should always tell him you love him and also keep talking like…. Now we will clothe, now it’s time to eat, you are a very good baby, I love your smile, now it’s Time to sleep. And during other tasks also.
Kiss a baby often. Research says, Research says kisses and love in childhood It decreases the chances of mental problems in old age. in old age who was kissed and loved in childhood.
Islam says be kind to children.Love them and have pity on them. Use kind words and your behavioral problem should not affect him/her.
When baby starts crawling, provide a safe environment and say less to them.Instead, make them aware of the sequence.
2: Physical needs Baby
Never leave him dirty. Whenever he does potty, pee or pour milk, do hurry to clean. This will give a baby good hygienic health, keep him/her away from devils and make his habit to live clean.
Give him a good diet. Follow the good nutritional chart. should breastfeed for 2yrs. Use honey, eggs, milk, and wheat after 6months. Some babies contain allergic symptoms, so that do not use all milk products same time.
Do massage before or after a bath and give bath daily.
He totally depends on others so do not leave him/her unchecked when he starts to sit and also don’t leave him lay for a long time.
WIFI and signal of other devices keep away from baby and room of a baby.
Additional role of a father in good parenting
As a good parent father should fulfil his/her emotional needs. I must say fathers are playing less role in the upbringing of a child. As the head of family fathers leave a deep impact on children’s personality and thoughts. And kids also live more obedient with fathers so they should play their strong role to prepare them for Sadqa-e-Jaria. And instead of ruling on them, give love and protection with a feeling of care. They should show their love for them and spend some quality time with them. And also set good examples for them
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7 Best Ways to make reading and writing fun in a home school
In a homeschool, new creative ideas and fun activities improve the vision of the kids and increase self-confidence without getting them bored.↑
Reading and writing are two educational methods which are much boring for some types of learners. Especially for audio learners, kinesthetic learners, reading, and writing is very boring work. And sometimes reinforcement on it could stop a child to learn. Actually, some student who can’t read and write properly may be phobic of reading and write. For some students, it’s hard to understand the difference between b and d. Some student complains words do dance in their imaginations Some others may have eyesight problem. It is up to parents that they should understand the real problem of their kids. This article is just for parents of preschoolers and early education homeschoolers.
Encouragement and easy activities will cure phobia and develop their interest in these activities
In a homeschool, parents or home tutors can make reading/writing more colorful, easy according to the learning capacity of the child. As a homeschooled mom, I just give them outlines or idea’s and they mostly make worksheets themselves. In a homeschool, children need motivation and encouragement for creativity and self-empowerment.
Here are some activities that could be used in a home school to make them read and write.
1.Reading/Writing Activity
1. Make a Flower and write names of all colors in petals. Then ask the child to read and color the Patel.
2. Color the Patels of a flower and say to him/her to write the names of colors. And appreciate the child’s work after completing the task.
2.Homeschool reading/writing activity
1.Make a flower or bunch of grapes and the child will count and write the numbers in each grape or Patel.
1. Make boxes of a train and write different names of things or alphabets in the boxes.
2. Make small boxes of a train and write words in every box. and ask the child to read the name/Alphabet in the box. Names of thing or persons could be used in it. And don’t forget to appreciate after completing the task.
4. Home school reading/writing activity
1. Write the names of some things on a paper and ask the child to find the things in the home.
2. Cut some pictures of things from the newspaper and ask the child to write the name of the things. As I was teaching two languages of my homeschooler so he wrote the names in both languages.
5. Homeschool Reading and writing activity
Write names of different things in artistic style with double line and ask the child to read and then write inside the letters with different colors.
6. Home school Reading writing activity
1. Write the names of parts of the body and ask the child to read and draw part to make a child.
2. Draw a child and say child to write the names of the part of the body.
7. Home school Reading/writing activity
Play a scrabble game on a paper with the child.
For that the name of anything in the equal small boxes. Ask the child to read and the child will think the name of anything using one of the letters from the previous letters in boxes and will write. and then again your turn. Look at the picture to understand the whole process.
8.Labeling and reading labels.
Labels of the food packaging, and on the toys are in hand activity. If a child still doesn’t find interest in reading and writing read yourself loudly the labels of the items and sometimes make some toys or food items and do labeling of those things.
There is no end of the activities to be used in home school and preschool. You could try one of these or all. These all are very simple and easy. what other activities do you use? Will be great if you share your idea’s with other readers.
Please leave a comment and don’t forget to share if you find this useful in your home school.
Ways to teach children of all learning type using the method of good homeschooling in Islam?
Fathers and mothers will equally be asked about the upbringing and education of their child, not educational institutes.
And whatever parents teach and train to their child is called homeschooling. Let’s see
What is the meaning of homeschooling?
Homeschooling. known as home education, is the education of children inside the home. Home education is usually conducted by a parent or tutor.
Homeschooling means an informal way of getting knowledge and learning. And informal learning starts when a child born he starts to learn and starts getting life skills. In this regard Parents sibling, society, schools, religion plays the role.
Good Muslim homeschooling starts from the lap of the mother and it never ends till the life ends.
Hence, parents could not get full knowledge of every field of life but little knowledge of every field of life is necessary for good homeschooling.
Here is a complete guideline for parents who do homeschooling.
Homeschooling consists of three facts.
What to teach,
Whom to teach
and how to teach?
Whom to teach?
Education starts from the very first day of birth and ends up with life. But as the methods of good homeschooling are under discussion, only Children’s education will be highlighted here.
Every child has own individual learning style.
Nowadays, every educationist as well as homeschooling parents aware of these seven learning styles.
These learning types find and fit onto the individual persona of the child and are applicable just for preschoolers and a little informal education. And at the last, formal institutes are using a typical method(more writing and reading).
In the homeschooling method, the regular syllabus is available in the market. But a parent or tutor has more flexibility to teach with individual personal learning styles.
How to teach?
The methods of good homeschooling.
What strategy should be applied to nourish skills rather than teaching knowledge?
Islam is a complete religion and it has an own code of life which nourishes individual skills. It gave human beings a wonderful homeschooling method(informal training system Like mosques, madrasa) which emphasis training and practice more than learning.
Quranic methods of human training have such wonderful features that fit into the methods of good homeschooling. All social development and advanced technology are because of That Islamic(INFORMAL)homeschooling method.
Today it is needed to move back where and follow Quran which has complete homeschooling methods
Now see how Quranic methods of a god homeschooling will be applied, using four sources of information on the children of all learning types to nourish their personal skills.
1) The artistic and verbal method and the tone of voice (as Qur’an uses) in a good Homeschooling help more.
Children love to color and want a variety of toys, clothes, foods, games, stories, poems outings, etc. And they learn while playing but they need dictation(Molding interest and converting information).
And dictation should be more attractive with a soft tone of voice and verbal sentences.
Instead of teaching the knowledge, convert the information.
Suppose, ifa child hurts someone(his siblings, friend, and bug or bee), and he would be told not to do this in insulting or dictation method and harsh words would be used to stop him, this will not work.
A good method of good homeschooling is that it makes him realize he did wrong, wisely using soft words and a painful wise tone.
like: – oooh it must be hurting him,
it is very painful for him,
You must say sorry and hug him,
Because of the devil, you did it so say Astaghfirullah.
This thing and style feel sorry for him.
The intellectual and scientific content
When children are being homeschooled, they ask,
what is this?
why is this?
where is something? etc.
They should be answered wisely with scientific content
Like: –
If Children ask why a bird can fly and I can’t?
Answer with scientific reason makes things easy and understandable. Your answer should be like this; – he has wings, it has less weight, and he can push air and can go high and fly. Make a paper/origami bird or plan to show the example. Just answering them that because they are the bird and we are not is not enough.
3) The reinforcement of the spiritual dimensions of man.
In a Good homeschooling method, a child could be treated according to his own spirit and level of learning. In this regard learning types of a student could help.
In this regard provide material to them and let them practice.
Facilitate a child with the application. In a good homeschooling method, a single item could help much.
Activities Like: –
Seed a plant and observe the stages of its growth,
Take the fruit basket and observe the colors and taste of different fruits,
Colors combination(red and yellow makes orange)
5) The appeal to the study of nature.
Nature is the world’s best trainer and teacher.
As a homeschooling student, a child gets more time to play and live outside. Spend more time outside near nature and discuss birds, plants, clouds, the sun, day-night, bugs bees, land, and hills.
In this regard, I have another article about mobile apps which helps a child to study nature.
6) The tapping of the historical incidents for evaluation.
In the method of good homeschooling,, history works like junk food. Direct from shop to mouth.
Stories from the Quran,
Then make own stories for kids like, Story of a pencil was made,
The living style of old ages,
How a knife or fire harmed anyone? The story of the child’s childhood.
And most attracting stories for children are your own childhood stories.
7) The expounding of the mysteries of the creation.Discussion with children about
Why Allah had made this world,
Why was sent into this world,
What is the reason for creating the plant,
clouds, water, air, germs, etc? Clouds to rain, water to drink and grow, birds to eat bugs bees, cats to eat the mouse, etc
8) The mentioning of series of truths and principles that govern human life, i.e. Sociology, Economics, Government, etc.
Here are rules and regulations of every aspect of the life described in the Qur’an.
In a good homeschooling, the child would be more about these rules.
Sociology includes, And rights of Allah Rights of human, rights of birds. How to interact with others.who is the owner, how to share or get things from others.
Economic, How to do trade, Sharing foods, toys, sell and buy, And who is the owner.
Government. The rule will be included like Who is the boss(father)? How to obey him and respect his orders.
same as that A team captain in a game governs, and the team will obey.
9. Zikker.(Repetition) m m
Every child learns with repetition. It may visual, oral or experimental.
In a good homeschooling, Parenting/ tutor could repeat as many times as he wishes with children. And again this repeating should be artistic and verbal so that children do not get tired.
10: – Penalty and punishment.
The penalty means reward, it could be oral like praise and acknowledgment. And some time to stop a child from something doing wrong punishment is also necessary. AS in Qur’an, penalty, and punishment are described at the same time. But Right after 20 to 30 minutes of punishment, come back to the child and discuss with him/her what he did wrong and why it should not happen next time.(Remmeber!children have a weak memory, They learn very fastly what they see but they could take the time to forget any wrong habit. So in a few discussions, they could not leave any habit. so some times try to ignore and sometimes discuss with good words)
What to teach?
1) Reason and logic.
2) Experience.
3) Study of Nature.
4) History.
are the four sources of information.
And In a good homeschooling, With this source of information children is taught different subjects and field of knowledge, like ethics, socialism, economics, science, and technics.
Informal education, the more educated, trained and skillful person who runs the educational institutes provides fully structured services.
With the changes in lifestyles and technology life become more easy and advanced systems are being introduced to formal schooling methods. But in a good homeschooling method Parents or tutors Use these sources to transform knowledge into children.
Using these all ten good homeschooling methods, a child could be shaped into a pious and honest Muslim. A good Homeschooling means more patience, more devotion, more skills, more passion, and full knowledge.
In this method of good homeschooling, Don’t forget to provide a good educational and practical environment, and also say “yes I’m here to a child” every time.
Watch this video for the Method used in Quran for human training.
What do you think about all these methods? Did you get new idea’s other than these? If you are using some other great methods, don’t forget to share it with us. Comments awaiting for your hits.
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No need to print, Make your own without boring them with traditional activity books and a load of worksheets.
Your child will pretty enjoy with these math fun activities.
Activities of hands and fingers will make them more Math clever, genius help them in motor skills also.
This is a compiled collection of math fun 🎉 activities that I had tested and practiced with kids. Believe me, It really works…., especially for kinesthetic learners.
These activities increase interest and they learn more quickly.
As restaurants can provide quick services with a variety of food but they can’t help you with reliability and quality ❤. Food 😋 made by mom always leaves GOOD memories🎶. The same is here that schools and teachers can’t fulfill all the emotional needs of your child. Parents can understand the child better than anyone else. A group of students and a classroom follows the same pattern and same stander of learning. they can’t help your child to entertain them and teach them fun. But Parents can! The second thing our traditional education system
and that load of worksheets, books, patterns, notebooks deal them like a robot rather than creative-minded individuals. School syllabus off course have reliability and students learn with them, but not all kind of learners.
For homeschooling worksheets and a planner is needed but both schooling and homeschooling need fun activities. Then why always push them like a robot learner.
Parents can create fun activities for them and I bet those activities will be more wonderful like a mom’s tasty food,
And your child will admire all of your efforts. Children will always remember the fun activities they had with parents. But parents also need to learn unique and innovative ways to make it easy for them to make sure what is going well 😊 to help them out.
you will no need to print them.
These activities will be more wonderful, creative, traditional, and mood appropriate
The significance of these math fun activities.
These Math fun Activities will be done without printable.
These math fun activities could be done anywhere even in the sand. When you will be at the beach or on the bed with bedtime stories.
These math fun activities also help with motor skills.
These math fun activities are much helpful for kinesthetic learners.
These activities will be mood appropriate and more entertaining.
Watch the videos samples and then try. I Believe Parents could create more fun activities including these. video:1 Video:2
Did you enjoy it? Is homeschooling make easy to learn math and other subjects? Try with your kids and share your thoughts. Read this also.
Do you know how mobile phone, iPad, tablets, etc could help your children in improving their skills, rapid learning, and of course for entertaining them, under your good parenting?
This is an era of technology. Life is totally unimaginable without Mobile phone and internet devices/accessories now a day. If I would
say mobiles works like batteries in our life…….. It will be true. Every age and every field of our life devices are replacing other products.
And definitely, our new generation Is also under the effects of this addiction and it’s clear in future these will be more productive and demanding tools. Willingly or unwilling we have to prepare our next generation for it. But how? Like every other single factor of life, mobiles also have positive sides, within all its negative sides. Definitely children today getting addicted to phones, same as adults. Now what is happening, some parents don’t have any excuses with them, and kids are handling all the devices as a pride(with semi check and balance). And the other under mobile phobia parents are afraid of these devices and neglecting good uses of devices as well as the demand of the era.
I’m saying it with the responsibility that we as parents, are using just social media and getting addicted because we don’t have enough skills, we are not getting benefits from these devices. But our children could get great benefits from these devices. After our good guidance and molding their mind towards skills rather than wondering and wasting time on social media and spending time in games. ( games are good of course, and parents feel safe with them, but games are also spoiling. and have negative points, which will I may discuss in another post)
First of all some steps for their security.
1. Turn off Wi-Fi 📶 if the app doesn’t need it. Because Wi-Fi and other tools that work on signals are very harmful to children and their mind works less with this. 2. Use the kid’s corner…Many devices have these apps otherwise download from the play store. This app could help you with your privacy.
3. Make it clear to your kids that they could only get personal devices after turning over 18 like other licenses and social security diploma.
4. If they are using these tools for a long time sitting down… Set their position righteous so that their eyes 👀 and shoulder muscles 💪 get less stress.
Now let’s see, How some apps are helpful for children in learning?
Taking photos is my most favorite and recommended habit. This is an app which children should use. So I always tried to develop their habit to take photos of everythingand capture the moment…
Mold their minds, give them indications, guide them towards their hobbies.
like:
1… Do gardeningwith them,and let them capture every step of seed to flower. A healthy hobby with extra entertainment and excitement.Where they would learn to grow vegetables, flowers, and fruits and later they will take photos to show others. The peak of excitement. This will increase their skill of focus capturing and come close to nature.
2… Let them Draw,things of their own Interest…..let them make a collection of drawing and save them into the eye of the camera.
4… Cooking...especially for girls..…Take them into the kitchen and make foods, ….. Try different recipes….and garnish them….and no need to say that they will learn the art of cooking, garnishing, working in the kitchen with other safety standards and then do photography. And definitely keeping the kitchen clean is the most focusing point to make good photos.
5…Selfies😄😆😈😡😟😕😔😉. Say them to take selfies with different emotions…like crying, upset, happy, shouting, loving,etc.…and then ask them to find the best emotion which they want to look like every time….very good thing to develop a charming, happy personality.
3… Film Your goodmoments, parties, etc
save them into videos/Slide show 4… During travel, in the car 🚗 watching outside, make videos when a thing seems Running and coming close. It will be a bonus of excitement for kids. I do not like to talk much during travel. So I would feel relaxation if kids would be busy doing this.
It’s also a very helpful tool…It will help in developing their behavior and learning 🏫 other skills. They will learn how to change effects, crop extra things, mix good moments,, add good frames, and look more gracefully with working on photos as well as our self. And parents could guide them relating with photos 📷 to work on self-personality development…
All of us 😊 know about learning tools and types of students. There is a huge no of children who could learn 🏫 more rapidly through audiovisualtools. So this is for them.
YouTube is the biggest video platform for every age and every field of life.
How videos are good for kids?
1..For learning poems
2.. For learning Tilwat and Tajweed.
3.. To watch stories
4.. To watch animated films 🎥.
5.. To learn languages.
6.. For toddlers poems, colors,shapes,sizes,numbers, alphabets,etc.
7.. To learn computer 💻 skills(the best way to teach painting, animations, Microsoft, and every technology)
8.. To watch documentaries.
9.. To watch researchers about animals,, space, humans life…etc
It’s so lovely. I wish I could go into my childhood again with these apps.
So this does not end, If you are an updated parent and you wish your children would walk around fully equipped and prepared with all technologies and want to make them able to move and survive with giving 100% return you can find much more best apps for kids.
Let me know, how helpful did you find these apps for kids.
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