Category: Homeschool Thoughts

Advice to Homeschooling Mothers – Managing Your Home

  Asalaam ‘Alaikum: Being a homeschooling mother, it is often difficult to manage your housework and cooking along with homeschooling your child. We need to learn balance and we also need to learn ways to make this job a little easier for ourselves, insha’Allah. We also need to let go of feeling that we always...

Advice to Homeschooling Mothers – Manage Your Time Well and You Will Succeed

  Asalaam ‘Alaikum, I know this is a long post – and I thought about dividing it up into smaller posts – but all these topics relate to one another and I didn’t want to separate them. I hope it is not too long that you decide not to benefit from it – for I...

Advice to Homeschooling Mothers – Remember the Importance of Dua

  Asalaam ‘Alaikum: Of all the homeschooling advice I can share – I think the most important one is to always remember the importance of Dua. If we are starting on our homeschooling journey – and we are unsure of ourselves and worried that we can’t do it – MAKE DUA. If we are teaching...

Making the Stories of the Prophets Relevant

  Asalaam ‘Alaikum: Now, I am sure we have probably made our own of lesson plans on the Stories of the Prophets – or perhaps we have just read stories with our children in the hopes of teaching them Islamic studies. However, have we made sure we are achieving the proper goals with our lessons?...

Advice to Homeschooling Mothers: Don’t Make Your Islamic Studies Irrelevant

  Asalaam ‘Alaikum: I have spent quite a bit of time trying to find the perfect curriculum for Islamic Studies – I have spent a lot of time trying to find the perfect Islamic educational books for my children – and yet, still I am pretty much empty handed. There is stuff out there –...

Educating the Muslim Child – The Legacy of Prophet Ibrahim

Asalaam ‘Alaikum: I just finished listening to the following video. Some good advice and amazing insight especially into the lessons we should learn from Prophet Ibrahim. May we learn to apply these lessons to our lives, insha’Allah. Insha’Allah you will benefit from this as well. Asalaam ‘Alaikum, Sumayyah Umm SAA