Homeschooling, Muslimah, Mexican American, wife.
I am a person with many, many views on life some apparent through the aforementioned words and others non fitting those "titles."
Quotes, hadeeth, surah, ayahs and stuff to remember.....
""No father can give his child a better gift than good manners, good character and a good education." – Tirmidhi.
"While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about." ~Angela Schwindt
"Whatever an education is, it should make you a unique individual, not a conformist; it should furnish you with an original spirit with which to tackle the big challenges; it should allow you to find values which will be your road map through life; it should make you spiritually rich, a person who loves whatever you are doing, wherever you are, whomever you are with; it should teach you what is important, how to live and how to die."
-- From Dumbing us Down
by John Taylor Gatto
"Man does not utter any word except that with him is an observer prepared [to record]" [Translation of the Meaning of the Quran,, 50;18]
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Mind your tongue!
( a post from facebook)
Speak the Truth – Al Qur’an 3:17
Speak Straight – Al Qur’an 33:70
Speak Justice – Al Qur’an 6:152
Speak Kindly – Al Qur’an 2:83
Speak Politely – Al Qur’an 17:53
Speak Fairly – Al Qur’an 17:28
Speak Gently – Al Qur’an 20:44
Speak Graciously – Al Qur’an 17:23
Speak not in Vain – Al Qur’an 23:3
Speak no Lie – Al Qur’an 22:30
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You don't Tell people who you are....you SHOW them
Look for me by email at HollyAGarza@gmail.com
Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allaah have mercy on him) said
"How many people have caused misery to their own children, the apples of their eyes, in this world and in the Hereafter, by neglecting them, not disciplining them, encouraging them to follow their whims and desires, thinking that they were honouring them when they were in fact humiliating them, that they were being merciful to them when in fact they were wronging them. They have not benefited from having a child, and they have made the child lose his share in this world and in the Hereafter. If you think about the corruption of children you will see that in most cases it is because of the parents.”
AsSalaamu Alaikum! Inshallah, I am beginning to home school my children. I am curious as to how you begin your school day. I am mainly interested in a “learning” dua, ayat or surah to begin each day with. Public schools have their pledge of allegiance… I would like a motivational dua to display on the wall and recite each morning. Jazakallah!
This is not something we do a lot unfortunately. What I do is I read her the “sound” of the dua. Then I tell her it’s meaning. Then we just practice it repeatedly. Some she learned in 20 minutes others takes us a few weeks.