Your Brain Has Wounds And They Are Called Trauma.

Trauma simply means that the brain's natural course of development was disturbed. The reason may be anything from emotional neglect (parents didn't acknowledge your emotions or attempted to discount them) to severe childhood abuse.

The brain never forgets what happened to it even in childhood

The...

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Skills Developed Through Play.

#play Post 3

Have you heard of Cal Tech? I’m sure that rang a bell for most of you as it did for me and I’m as aware of technological companies as I am of the rare bird species in Antarctica (are there even birds in Antarctica? )

Anyway, you’ve probably heard of it because of...

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How To Teach Kids About Religion-Part 1

Respectful heads up: Religious content ahead.

There are only three ways for our kids to learn about religion and want to live it:

1- Modeling

2- Through fun

3- Miracle/Qadr

Modeling:

1- Our children can’t be better Muslims than we are currently. And if all they see us do is hurried Salah...

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Brain Science- Part 1

Like my kids would say NERD ALERT NERD ALERT!

Haha

Who’s ready to go into nerd zone with me?

I’m SO excited to start a three-part series of posts about brain science here. It’s gonna be different from anything I’ve written before because it’s going to explore the...

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