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The Lost Boys (and Girls): Bringing Back Young Muslim Teens(17)

May 25, 2009

Young Muslim teens are steadily being drawn away from Islam and sucked into a glitzy, glamorous, and utterly shallow culture of pure vanity. How do we find, and keep, our lost boys and girls? What follows is a new approach at analysing the causes of youthful misguidance and a more detailed, long-term method of reaching out to Muslim youth by connecting to them on an individual level and helping them pave the way to greatness.

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A Wake-Up Call For Muslim Parents

The young parent forgets what it was like as a child, to be caught red-handed, or worse, to be scolded or punished. It seems as if, now that a couple has become parents, they can get away with treating their children however they like. The moment the effect of their parenting mistakes manifests itself in their young children’s negative behavior, the latter are ceremoniously lectured or reprimanded. However, do the parents pause and reflect about which actions of theirs might have been the cause of that behavior?

Like Father, Like Daughter

Amongst the many family dynamics issues that the Muslim community is beginning to address, one of the least-discussed subjects remains that of father-daughter relationships.
In the Muslim community especially, this is an issue which has been overlooked, ignored, and generally treated with a sense of discomfort. Particularly amongst immigrant families, the relationship between a father and [...]

Raising Children in the West– How Do You Define Respect (Part 3)

We parents in the West will have to work hard to discover methods to instill “respect” in our children as we make our own values and draw our own lines, preferably, taking the best of both East and West. In fact, we should consider ourselves lucky that we are exposed to both of the cultures and are able to offer the best of both to our children. We will make mistakes, but we must learn to quickly recover, avoid repetition and improve. Although it is difficult, it is worth the constant struggle (juhd).


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