How to Connect with Your Teen

To connect with your teenager, you'd need to improve your relationship with her/him. I've written a book titled exactly this: How to Improve Your Relationship with Your Child. In it there are three main ways you can do this.

The first is to spend time together, doing things together. It can be as simple as watching a movie together or as complicated as adventuring together. Whatever it is, it's about being together.

5 Ways to Finding Your Child's Role in the Ummah

 

Fulfilling your role in your community is a part of your worship. Allah made us to worship Him and to serve the community while we’re here on earth. But most kids don’t know what role to fill - they don’t know what they want to do when they grow up. And neither do parents. Good parents will help their children find a suitable role that aligns with their personalities, interests and likes. Never push your children to be something that you want them to be because of your own aspirations.

A Muslim Kid's Roles and Responsibilities

 

Everyone has different roles and responsibilities to fulfil. For children, that’s how to be a good child, a sibling possibly, a grandchild, a nephew/niece, then as they get older, a student, a friend and so on. There are manners and behaviours associated with each one.

Kindness and Empathy to Counter Bully Behaviour

 

Kindness and empathy are what is needed to counter a world full of unfriendliness and narcistic vibes. Bully behaviour can emerge from not caring about others and not being able to feel the emotions of others. But teaching children empathy only is not enough.