Bismillah
When the kids are young, their brains are like an unfinished puzzle. Then the experiences and situations they go through in life, the various lessons and what they are exposed to, become the missing puzzle pieces to fill in that unfinished puzzle.
Which puzzle pieces we feed into them affect the final puzzle and how it looks. More importantly, when they are young, you can pack in a lot of pieces to create mini pictures that will later become part of the whole. As they grow, the pieces you can fit in diminish because each mini picture or section is taking shape and everything has now to fit into the already created scene. If you want to change that scene or change the pieces, you must first undo what was placed there in the beginning, making the work much harder and not as accurate and the end result not as easy to determine.
So, catch the mind while it is young and teach information that 1. makes sense 2. is acceptable/fits into the scene. Positive reinforcement and ensuring that the information you feed will resonate with the fitrah and the soul will go down easier than giving information that makes the soul feel discomfort and question the validity of said information.
Humans are made with the ability to sense truth from falsehood and right from wrong. Any aware human is able to tell. When we are young, our ability is the strongest yet our will is the weakest so if those stronger than us deliberately distort things, our ability will become dull and may even die out.
A child understands that hitting him hurts him which makes it wrong and so he cries. If you continue to do it, he will then copy and hit someone else as a way to discipline or teach that person. Not because it is inherently right but it has become acceptable and right by what you taught him/her. This simple example can be extrapolated from and we can easily understand why an abused child will grow to either abuse others or to enter into abusive relationships, and many other situations.
Beyond actual actions and situations, what we are made to understand and accept when we are younger, shapes our fundamental values, those that are so a part of us, they are practically unconscious.
Today, the Western culture has arrived at the point where homosexuality is not only acceptable, it is right and a right. And whereas before it was something that adults only could discuss, it is now a part of the education system, from a very early age. Our children are being taught that it is a natural and perfectly acceptable way of life for any and all. Beyond the issue of homosexuality and its related aspects, there is the issue of sex and sexuality being explored by our children at an extremely young age. In that same Western culture, you will hear that pedophilia is an unacceptable practice, but at schools and in homes, sex is everywhere and even being shoved into the children's faces.
Sex is on commercials, billboards, cartoons, reality shows, movies, magazines, children's books, etc. In the child's daily life, at school younger children discuss boyfriend/girlfriend matters, watch older kids hook up and break up, at home, their older siblings get new boyfriends or break up with old ones. Their own parents might be doing the same if they aren't together (divorce or separation or just being single parents who never even married).
Our children are growing up with an artificial culture where the norm is abnormal and where everyone has to accept everyone else, along with their aberrant (or not) behavior.
So I want to say this:
Mind the puzzle pieces that are making up the final shape of your mind's puzzle. Make sure the pieces are well thought out and make sense and will benefit your future. It would be a great loss if today you were misled to create a butterfly mini picture when in reality, on that spot belonged a rose, or vs.
When the kids are young, their brains are like an unfinished puzzle. Then the experiences and situations they go through in life, the various lessons and what they are exposed to, become the missing puzzle pieces to fill in that unfinished puzzle.
Which puzzle pieces we feed into them affect the final puzzle and how it looks. More importantly, when they are young, you can pack in a lot of pieces to create mini pictures that will later become part of the whole. As they grow, the pieces you can fit in diminish because each mini picture or section is taking shape and everything has now to fit into the already created scene. If you want to change that scene or change the pieces, you must first undo what was placed there in the beginning, making the work much harder and not as accurate and the end result not as easy to determine.
So, catch the mind while it is young and teach information that 1. makes sense 2. is acceptable/fits into the scene. Positive reinforcement and ensuring that the information you feed will resonate with the fitrah and the soul will go down easier than giving information that makes the soul feel discomfort and question the validity of said information.
Humans are made with the ability to sense truth from falsehood and right from wrong. Any aware human is able to tell. When we are young, our ability is the strongest yet our will is the weakest so if those stronger than us deliberately distort things, our ability will become dull and may even die out.
A child understands that hitting him hurts him which makes it wrong and so he cries. If you continue to do it, he will then copy and hit someone else as a way to discipline or teach that person. Not because it is inherently right but it has become acceptable and right by what you taught him/her. This simple example can be extrapolated from and we can easily understand why an abused child will grow to either abuse others or to enter into abusive relationships, and many other situations.
Beyond actual actions and situations, what we are made to understand and accept when we are younger, shapes our fundamental values, those that are so a part of us, they are practically unconscious.
Today, the Western culture has arrived at the point where homosexuality is not only acceptable, it is right and a right. And whereas before it was something that adults only could discuss, it is now a part of the education system, from a very early age. Our children are being taught that it is a natural and perfectly acceptable way of life for any and all. Beyond the issue of homosexuality and its related aspects, there is the issue of sex and sexuality being explored by our children at an extremely young age. In that same Western culture, you will hear that pedophilia is an unacceptable practice, but at schools and in homes, sex is everywhere and even being shoved into the children's faces.
Sex is on commercials, billboards, cartoons, reality shows, movies, magazines, children's books, etc. In the child's daily life, at school younger children discuss boyfriend/girlfriend matters, watch older kids hook up and break up, at home, their older siblings get new boyfriends or break up with old ones. Their own parents might be doing the same if they aren't together (divorce or separation or just being single parents who never even married).
Our children are growing up with an artificial culture where the norm is abnormal and where everyone has to accept everyone else, along with their aberrant (or not) behavior.
So I want to say this:
Mind the puzzle pieces that are making up the final shape of your mind's puzzle. Make sure the pieces are well thought out and make sense and will benefit your future. It would be a great loss if today you were misled to create a butterfly mini picture when in reality, on that spot belonged a rose, or vs.
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