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Category Archives: Youth & Children
The Inverse Power of Praise
Muslim Mom discusses why positive reinforcement in children requires careful wording and an encouraging demeanour for it to be effective:
A group of studies found that students who are praised for being intelligent tend to quit whenever things get tough, whereas students who are praised for their effort become more persistent when faced with difficult challenges.
At first it seems like a small difference, to say “You really worked hard at this!” vs. “You’re so smart!” but the effects of praising a child’s intelligence and pegging him as a “smart kid” actually holds him back from acheiving his true potential.
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Food for Thought
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There are many many malnourished infants today, maybe equal to or more than that 25 years ago. And despite the fact that human population of the globe has doubled, the food productivity has quadruppled, meaning that the 800 million people in the world are hungry not because of food shortage but unequal distribution of it. An FAO report showed that 80% of the children who are hungry, live in countries that PRODUCE food surplus. Which goes to show that famines are also due to a human phenomenon called ‘grain trade’.
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How to respect your children
It is certainly true that we, as adults, always try to respect one another. But do we extend the same courtesy to our children?
Umm Zaidah Nusaybah discusses at her blog:
“Respect is often associated with elders. We are taught to respect our parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents etc. The subject of respecting youngsters is quite alien. How often do we see children being spoken to in a derogatory manner? Being criticized for not doing something correctly or being shouted at for causing an accident? Have we ever stopped to think about how that child feels when we behave in such a manner? We need to ask ourselves, how would you feel if we were being treated in this way.”
Like a tree in the middle of the desert
In this thoughtful post, Munzareen draws a beautiful parallel between a lonely tree in the desert in Bahrain, and the Muslim community in the West:
“SubhanAllah. A tree in the middle of the desert. No one expected this tree to live or survive, yet it has through Allah’s Will. This tree is just like you or me. The current political atmosphere may make us believe that we are outsiders; that we do not belong. Yet, we are here—surviving, striving, dreaming and achieving. We are here by the bounty of Allah (SWT).”
Although Munzareen is referring to Muslims in the West, I believe what this can apply in general to the entire Muslim Ummah, scattered all over the globe. He goes on to urge us to persevere in the way of Allah SWT and try to realize our potential:
“We have so much to offer, so much to share with the world. We wear our religion on our sleeves and that being so; we should portray it in the best of light. We should set the example and show that no matter what we can survive and be an asset to Western society as opposed to how some people would like to show the Muslim community.”
Read more at Travelers on the Path of Knowledge.