I grew up in a small rural village of a developing country during the 1950s and 1960s within a wider ‘extended’ family environment amidst many village...
By Elham Saif, Sarrah AbuLughod and Wahida Abaza Fariha just started her freshman year at university. Overnight, she was separated from her support system of family...
“To lose one parent is misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.” – Oscar Wilde If I am to take Mr Wilde’s words to heart, I’ve...
The way most Muslims (as well as conservative Christians and Jews) live, a man asks for a woman’s hand in marriage from the father. The father...
From a cognitive-development standpoint, this is called a concrete operational period, according to Jean Piaget. (N.B: Some adults never progress beyond this phase, while 15% of...
This is called a pre-operational period by Jean Piaget who was focused on cognitive development. Children this age have difficulty reconciling between different dimensions or seemingly...
I remember driving to college orientation over the summer with my father, may Allah have mercy on him. I was going to be going to school...
In this age group, infants were thought by Jean Piaget to develop skills and experience through sensations and movements; that is why he called it the...
I don’t really care about grit. Persevering and persisting through difficulties to achieve a higher goal is awesome. High-five. We should all develop that. No one...
Loving Allah and trusting the Wisdom and Purpose in everything He throws your way- even if it hurts. It is a time to learn.
