Family Life

After a long day’s work, I revised my daughter’s surah (chapter of Qur-aan) and just when I was about to give up, she paused. I mistook her long pause for her forgetting the verse of …

Most men have a hard time understanding women. Even a woman they’ve been married to for years. One minute she’s perfectly fine, the next, she’s crying like a baby. She complains about something but when …

Social networking… the scourge of modern technology, if abused, especially for the youth of today. I know that the “Blackberry” or “BB” addictions are rife, adults and youth falling victim to it alike but what …

Is there really a right or wrong way to grieve? Well, grief is something that saddens a person so it is normal to feel down. The question is to what extent should one grieve? What …

Dyslexia is the most common learning disability in children and persists throughout life. It is a neurological problem of genetic origin which makes the acquisition of language skills extremely difficult. The condition is sometimes referred …

There are a number of conditions that look a lot like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, but are not ADHD. Here are some of these conditions that look like ADHD, but are not: Bipolar Disorder (Early …

Children with ADHD typically: are restless, fidgety and overactive continuously chatter and interrupt people are easily distracted and do not finish things are inattentive, have short attention spans and cannot concentrate on tasks are impulsive, …

There’s a common phrase going around these days. I hate it when a child usually displays NORMAL active behaviour, and another parent asks, “What’s going on with your kid? Is he hyper or what?” Does …