Mastering our Stories

“Emotional intelligence needs to become a part of our conscious mind and self development.” You must have come across this statement whenever we talk about relationships, parenting and communication in any relationship. In the following video I talk about how we can help shape our stories from the perspective of sunnah, seerah examples and research. […]

ھوم سکولینگ کیسے اور کیوں؟

https://youtu.be/ctnc6aJOi-Q?t=5 آیَں ھوم سکولینگ کے سفر کو مل کے سمجھییں اور جانیں   یہ وڈیو اپکے بہت سارے سوالوں کا جواب دینے کی ایک چھوٹی سی کوشش ہے۔ امید ہے کے اپ اس سے مستفید ہونگے انشااللہ

Parenting is a bigger challenge for some than the rest

Every parent story is different One of the most important and loved people in my life became a first time parent. I was happy and excited for the new chapter in their life. What we learned, very quickly after the baby was born , were the long lasting challenges the parent and the baby would […]

To please or not to please

It’s easy to please children. Hand them distractions and you are set for a few hours. But at what cost?  1: They are addicted to that distraction 2: They loose sense of purpose otherwise aka I am bored syndrome 3: They misbehave 4: They get frustrated 5: They suffer time outs 6: They get immune […]

Love letters to my children

Dearest children, do you know what has kept me going over the years? Duas , prayers … conversations with Rab. They are the most comforting. We sometimes forget that He is right there with us through joy and despair, vigor and fatigue , pleasure and anger ,loss and finding of oneself and purpose, He will […]

When will I be the best parent?

Indeed a tough question. I often ponder whether there is such a thing? I would lay my head to rest, satisfied, patting myself on the back, thinking you got this. The answer is .. somedays for sure, In Shaa Allah ( God Willing). That’s my wondering face:) We all have that face many times a […]

If I had a parenting manual

I would read the manual, mark the important points, highlight the gems, have several stars and bookmarks across the pages. Just like any subject in school, I am pretty sure, I might have also aced the exam. A funny notion isn’t it, acing a parent exam. Parenting is so different from a book read, a […]

Our homeschooling Journey

It was 2015, ten years into our marriage and parenting, we realized we want to change our set up. No one in our immediate family had done this before. We had heard of distant cousins trying and applying the kind of lifestyle we were going to adopt. So we said our prayers and jumped in. […]

It is parenting ever after

Weddings make me happy. I am not kidding when I say, that at any wedding, relatives or not, I genuinely feel motherly like for the couple. My heart fills with duas, my eyes with tears and my face is plastered with a continuous smile to the point where it starts aching. I have proof! The […]

When Parenting is new, lonely and confusing

If someone would have told me in 2005 when I was expecting my first born, that parenting is going to be a tough ride, a gullible me would have said, well how difficult can it be to feed, change a diaper and put the baby to sleep? Fast forward, 14 years later, I would say […]