Parent-Child Relations: A Guide to Raising Children
Parent-Child Relations: A Guide to Raising Children
This easy-to-read, comprehensive guide contains what you need to know on how to parent with confidence. Packed with advice and powerful tips, using the latest research on child development and parenting techniques, it offers a mine of information on how to let children flourish, take the frustration out of parenting and develop happy family relations. Authors guide developing character, knowledge, values, and skills, as well as a faith-based outlook in children, benefiting parents with kids of all ages.
The many strategies and techniques offered include:
- Teaching children how to problem-solve
- Making decisions
- Developing self-esteem.
Raising God conscious, moral, successful children, with a sense of civic responsibility in today’s world is not easy. It is also not impossible. Effective parenting is key.
About the Authors
Dr. Hisham Yahya Altalib
Dr Hisham Yahya Altalib, born in Mosul, Iraq in 1940, grew up in a religious Muslim family. He remembers his father as “hard-working, committed, and pious,” and that he maintained faith rituals throughout his life. This home environment nonetheless did not “push” Dr Altalib to practice Islam. He pursued it on his own, and in seventh grade encountered a teacher whom he still remembers as his spiritual father: Abdulhafid Sulayman.
Sulayman’s leadership and inspiration motivated Dr Altalib to further study his religion and become involved in his school and community. In this context, Dr Altalib began to develop his moderate Islamic worldview at a young age. This experience helped him “to be humble and work for Allah. I did not aspire for important positions in religious groups or the mosque. I worked behind the scenes.”
Dr Altalib graduated from high school in Mosul with Jamal Barzinji, his close high school friend since the tenth grade, and in 1959 both young men moved to the United Kingdom at age 17 to attend Liverpool University and study engineering. “Our mentors counselled us to go there as if it were an island,” Dr Altalib said. “They said to rely on yourself and Allah alone. We had no community waiting for us there as we had in Iraq. Instead, we developed self-reliance from a moderate Islamic perspective.”
Lacking a student organization in their new home, Drs. Altalib and Barzinji collaborated with other Muslim students to form the Muslim Student Society of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. The society met to socialize and perform community work and hosted student gatherings during school holidays and summer vacations when most other students left the campus. “We assembled, cooked and ate together, and provided a positive religious framework for students,” Dr Altalib said. He graduated in 1962 with a B.Sc. in electrical engineering.
Meanwhile, at this time, Iraq was undergoing dramatic social and political upheaval. Trends of nationalism, communism, socialism, Baathism, and secularism attracted young people and heated debate. In this environment, the MSS, a community of reform-minded Arabs and Islamists, promoted a moderate Islamic worldview. The group established a newsletter called “The Stranger,” based on a hadith or spoken tradition of the Prophet Muhammad: [include hadith about strangers] “We were about reform from the start,” Dr Altalib said. “This hadith defined who we were.” Dr Altalib hoped dearly to return to Iraq and contribute to spiritual and social reform in his home country. However, God had a different plan.
After completing their bachelors of science degrees, Drs. Altalib and Barzinji returned to Iraq in 1962. Since military service was mandatory, they attended officer training college for six months that year, amid great political turmoil, counterrevolution, and a Baathist coup. They graduated from the academy with more than 1,000 other officers, but, known to the Baathist regime for their reformist work in the United Kingdom and Iraq, were summarily dismissed from service. Although now out of favour with the regime, Dr Altalib remembers the dismissal as a time of relief. “Army service was a burden intellectually amid the military mentality to kill rather than engage in negotiations and team building. The military mentality at this time was not a civil viewpoint, and Iraq was now a police state.” Dr Altalib worked as an electrical engineer with the Iraqi Petroleum Company from 1962 to 1968.
Iraq’s political environment at this time demonstrated to the two engineers that their life’s path may lie outside the country. “We asked ourselves how we should best address Islamic values during this turbulent time when everything was being redefined and rediscussed,” Dr Altalib said. “We concluded that what was happening in Iraq politically was not headed in the right direction to provide the necessary reforms. We were about intellectual reform, not about guns and force.” The engineers decided to complete their graduate degrees in the U.S. and return soon after “to serve their country.”
In 1968, Dr Altalib and his wife emigrated quietly to the U.S., where he pursued graduate studies in electrical engineering at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio and Purdue University in Lafayette,
Indiana, where he obtained his M.S. and PhD in electrical engineering in 1974. Along the way, he discovered a path in Islamic leadership and da’wa, which broadened his focus beyond Iraq to the needs of Muslims in North America. He has not been back to Iraq since but hopes to find a safe way to visit in the future.
Throughout his career as an electrical engineer, Dr Altalib was active in Islamic work in North America and continues to work in this field today. In Ohio and Indiana, while studying and working in engineering, Dr Altalib became the first full-time director of the Training Department of the Muslim Students Association of the United States and Canada (MSA), 1975 to 1977. He and others directed the MSA based on the same principles that governed the MSS in Britain.
Dr Altalib conducted numerous training camps and seminars in the U.S. and abroad. He held several leadership positions in Islamic organizations, such as the Secretary-General of the International Islamic Federation of Student Organizations (IIFSO) in 1976. Drs. Altalib and Barzinji worked in leadership positions in the MSA, which “like heaven for us, being able to work without fear of imprisonment. I felt welcome working in the U.S. We could write and speak freely and conduct meetings for peaceful and intellectual reform, and the sky was the limit.” The growing group discovered many leadership needs and opportunities among Muslim communities in North America, and formed departments in media, education, finances, and leadership training. Dr Altalib was a founding member and director of the SAAR Foundation, 1983 to 1995. He was also a founding member of the International Institute of Islamic Thought in 1981 and is currently Vice President of the Child Development Foundation.
Dr Altalib continues to mentor and inspire people of all ages and continues his focus on research-based development and education. His book, The Training Guide for Islamic Workers, has been translated into numerous languages. The Training Guide for Islamic Workers, Parent-Child Relations, and The Da’wah Covenant of Honor available here culminate Dr Altalib’s life work and provide timeless tools for leaders, parents, and communities.
Professor Emeritus Dato' Dr Abdul Hamid Ahmad Abu Sulayman
Professor Emeritus Dato' Dr Abdul Hamid Ahmad AbuSulayman (born 1936 in Makkah, Saudi Arabia) is an internationally renowned Islamic scholar, thinker, educationist and author of many books and articles on the subject of Islam and Islamic reform, especially in the fields of thought and education. He is currently Chairman of the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) and was the Founding President of the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) between 1989 and 1999.
He started his career as a lecturer at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where he chaired the Department of Political Science from 1982 to 1984. He then moved to Malaysia, where he served IIUM also as a lecturer. In 1989, he succeeded Tan Sri Dr Muhammad Abdul Rauf of Egypt as the second Rector of IIUM and served the office until 1999. During his rectory, IIUM grew from a humble Madrasah of high school standard to a world-class university with 15,000 student enrolment on a new campus that is considered a landmark in functional modern Islamic architecture.
Post his rectory in IIUM, he joined IIIT and, since then, become its Chairman.
In recognition of his service to Malaysia and Muslims around the world, in 2016, his name was put in a Centre for Collaborative Research set up by IIUM under the Faculty of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences. Earlier in 2008, IIUM awarded him the degree of Honorary Doctor of Philosophy in Education
Additional Product Information
- ISBN13: 9980000000024
- ISBN 10: 9980000000024
- Cover Type: Paperback
- Binding: Paperback
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Hisham Altalib, Abdul Hamid Abu Sulayman, & Omar Altalib
- Author: Balil Abd Al-Karim
- Pages: 508
- Weight: 500g
- Publication Date: 2013
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