Our children during the month of Ramadan
Children are the joy of life, the adornment of this lower world, what remains to man after his death, if it educates well ("when the son of Adam dies, all his works stop except three: charity whose benefits are being perpetuated, his knowledge which serves other and a pious child who invokes Allah in his favor "). The month of Ramadan is a wonderful opportunity that leaves its imprint on our children, if we manage to well exploit. This can affect their conduct in all situations of life.
Fasting is a great responsibility that requires efforts, patience, and an iron will. It is an obligation and Sharia provides a reward for the one who performs it and a sanction for those who abandoned it, hence the need for parents to teach their children to do it, to love it and to operate it best to inculcate good values and correct behavior, and teach them new practices and experiences.
How to make fasting a moment of happiness for our children, and how to make it a moment of joy as they wait impatiently? How to exploit this month to anchor the educational and religious values in their souls?
It is very important that the child sees and hears in his entourage of manifestations of joy for the coming of this month. He thus grew up seeing intense happiness and the joy of his parents and his brothers to the approach of this blessed month.Those happy memories remain so serious in his memory for the rest of his life. If one of us tried to go a few years back, it would remember the first years where he has lived the experience of fasting and would be a more enjoyable and the most exciting.
It may be appropriate that parents are their children's gifts at the beginning of the month of Ramadan, which would carry a deeper meaning to know that the month of Ramadan arrives bringing much good. Children will like it as well and it will be waiting impatiently.
It is important to gradually habituate the child to fast. We cannot let grow our children then surprise them one day by forcing them to fast without that they are prepared, because this will be difficult.Therefore, prepare them there.
The energy of the child and its ability to endurance increase day after day. There is nothing wrong with what the child is unable to fast this year, and no sin upon since it has not yet reached the age where he must perform religious duties. It is not mandatory that the child fasting the month of Ramadan in full at the beginning, nor that he fasts a day. We can teach it him gradually by fasting until noon and then the afternoon. It is possible to allow him to drink water if it happens to endure hunger. So it adjusts to fast.
It is necessary to be gentle with the child and develop in him the sense of waiting for divine retribution, learning what Allah has reserved for the fasters, and the fact that it is not only to have hunger and thirst but that fasting is an act of worship and obedience, and Moreover, has a great reward.
It is important that this experience is accompanied by rewards and gifts of encouragement at the end of the day of fasting and the month of Ramadan. It is possible to involve children in a contest by saying: ' he who jeûnera more more gifts, one who will do the prayers of the Taraawiih will be such and such thing... ". Consider that the child loves the quick rewards which encouraged him to continue to perform the obligations until they become a part of his life and of his behaviour. We have the edifying example of the companions of the Prophet, 
, who taught their children, early on, to fast and gave them toys and dolls to make them forget about hunger and thirst.
, who taught their children, early on, to fast and gave them toys and dolls to make them forget about hunger and thirst.
The eagerness of children to fast with their parents has important pedagogical significance. This rooted in them self-confidence, develops the sense of self-affirmation and the sense of responsibility, because they feel that they are doing great people. This sentiment may explain the insistence of some children to fast the whole month and enthusiasm, although they are still small. This has a positive impact on the conduct, devotional acts of our children and their relationships with others, making the month of Ramadan a starting point for our responsibilities the other months of the year, in the devotional acts and relations with others.
The month of Ramadan is also an opportunity to instill in our children the Islamic values such as patience, endurance of hunger and thirst or the conviction of being observed by Allah, exalted is, in abstaining from eating and drinking while they could do it away from the eyes of the people. Values this month also root, include also the sake of attendance at mosques, the love of the prayers of the Taraawiih and the Quran, by organising competitions wholly or partially memorizing the Koran, or even reading the Koran, and generosity that parents learn their children by giving them money so they put it in the hand of a supplicant or a needy.
Children must feel that laziness and apathy have no place in this month which all moments are precious and should not be wasted unnecessarily. It would be criminal to abandon our children to television stations that teach them values and deviant because of emissions, guilty entertainment and films they broadcast, on the pretext that they target children. Mothers may not be aware that the dangers threatening their children and their driving because of these chains are no less - and may even be more important - than those to which he would be exposed if he was allowed out of the House.
The month of Ramadan is also an opportunity to develop healthy food tastes in children and away bad habits imposed by contemporary civilization and which are more harmful than helpful. We must give our children a good example in our food and our drinks because our eating habits will affect invariably them.
Finally, the month of Ramadan is a great opportunity that we must exploit to educate our children, boys and girls. This will be possible that by developing a plan and a programme so that the child this month having acquired something new and laudable ethics.
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