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9. You should give him responsibilities that correspond to his
capabilities and maturity. For instance, encourage your child to teach other children or adults about what he has just learned.
Withhold these privileges when he behaves badly. Methods for moral preparation:
1. Parents should show the values of good deeds and their effects on the individuals and society; also showing the effects of bad deeds, all
within the childs capability of understanding. They should read them stories and draw moral lessons from them. The Seerah is a
good start as well as the Noble Qur’aan and the life of the prophets PBUTA.
2. Parents should be a good example in their behavior because children like to imitate their parents in their sayings and their
deeds. 3. Teach the child to be proud of being a Muslim. Explain why we
worship Allaah and what we gain in the Hereafter and inthis life for it. Pray often with him. The Prophet Muhammad swas said,
Order your children to pray at the age of seven. Teach him to react with honor and self-respect but not with pride.
Teach him leadership and the skill of working in group with his peers and dodge when necessary, especially to avoid conflict or
behaviors against Islamic teachings. 4. Teach him what he should do in difficult situations and let him
take decisions from time to time. 5. Give him responsibilities in masjid like saying the Adhan or
leading other children in prayer or even the whole assembly if he is able to. Masjid should be his second house so he should attend
whenever the parents are attending, and he should learn early his place in masjid , boys with men and girls with women.
10. Teach him to love the Muslims small and big, regardless of
race, language, or origin and be happy talking to everyone with kindness. Let him socialize and let others take him in their
arms. Let him play with the children. 11.
Encourage him to sympathize with Muslim problems and to contribute to the solutions such as the poverty problem and to
donate some money from his economies to the hungry Muslim children.
12. Encourage him to do presentations in places where Muslims go.
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