The Best Approach to Raising Children and the Cooperation of the Parents
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Question:
The sister says: I hope that Your Eminence the Shaykh, in this program from which we have benefited greatly, will clarify for us the best approach to raising children. Specifically, does the father of these children participate with the wife and mother in their upbringing? Or does he say that it is the wife who is responsible for the upbringing, monitoring their studies, and so on?
Answer:
The father and mother cooperate in raising their children. When they reach the age of seven, the age of discernment, they are commanded to praySunan ad-Daraqutni 3:5. So the father and mother cooperate in raising their children in the religion, in knowing their Lord, in knowing their Prophet, and in knowing their religion. Yes.
The presenter:
May Allah bless you.
The sister says: I hope that Your Eminence the Shaykh, in this program from which we have benefited greatly, will clarify for us the best approach to raising children. Specifically, does the father of these children participate with the wife and mother in their upbringing? Or does he say that it is the wife who is responsible for the upbringing, monitoring their studies, and so on?
Answer:
The father and mother cooperate in raising their children. When they reach the age of seven, the age of discernment, they are commanded to pray
Command your children to pray at the age of seven, beat them for it at the age of ten, and separate them in their beds.
مروا أولادكم بالصلاة لسبع، واضربوهم عليها لعشر، وفرقوا بينهم في المضاجعThe presenter:
May Allah bless you.
Source
قناة «العلامة الدكتور صالح الفوزان»، برنامج (فتاوى) (174) لمعالي الشيخ صالح الفوزان بتاريخ [1440-03-21] - كبار العلماء — youtube.com (27:48)
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