How do parents invest the days of Ramadan in planting the values ​​of goodness in the hearts of young children?

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-Ramadan is a golden opportunity to promote the values ​​of goodness in the hearts of children. As soon as the holy month arrives and the fasting people stop eating, souls will find relief. Sympathy with others is manifested through the values ​​of giving to the needy and patience in self-striving to overcome various desires and build daily behavior consistent with the nature of the holy month.

Al Jazeera Net monitored several participatory family stories of practical experiences that show how to spend the day, centered on charity and volunteering, starting with caring for the elderly, and even feeding during the holy month, to innovative ideas aimed at implanting the values ​​of goodness in the child.

Allocating a piggy bank in the month of Ramadan and placing it in front of the children to collect money and then distribute it to the poor (Pixels)

"Ramadan piggy bank"

And about the role of parents in investing the holy month in planting these values, Umm Sharif says that she and her husband are keen to allocate a piggy bank in the house days before Ramadan, and put it in front of the eyes of her young to collect the money, and then distribute it to the poor.

She adds, "My sons also used to distribute dates and water to those fasting in the mosque before the time of breakfast, but these works stopped in the past two years due to the Corona epidemic and the ban, and returned this year, thank God."

Fasting days are a real opportunity to teach our children the values ​​of our true Islamic religion (Getty Images)

goodness parcels

The fifty-year-old Abu Alaa is keen on the participation of his three children in distributing charity parcels to the poor, which brings joy to their hearts.

"When children participate in the process of buying, packing and transporting parcels, this atmosphere instills noble values ​​in their souls and refines them again, to purify souls and radiate hope in the heart of every fasting person, whatever his condition," he says.

He adds that "at the end of the month, the feast culminates in the joy of completing the month and continuing the giving and goodness that were instilled in Ramadan, to reflect the beauty of the many values ​​that are transmitted among all members of society."

Fadia Ibrahim: Ramadan is a real opportunity to realize the meaning of social solidarity in society (Al Jazeera)

Strengthening social bonds

Specialist and social consultant Dr. Fadia Ibrahim confirms that the month of Ramadan is "a real opportunity to realize the meaning of social solidarity in society, because it carries the values ​​of feeling and feeling for others and striving during this holy month to help the needy, and it strengthens social ties through collective worship, such as Tarawih, and through the meeting of relatives. I invited them to the breakfast tables.

And it turns out that even at the family level, they all gather at the breakfast table and strengthen the bonds between them, so there is no time when the family sits with each other with more intimacy and love than the blessed month of Ramadan.

The spiritual aspect is at its highest and best stages in this holy month through worship - according to Fadia - it is a tranquility of the soul and reassurance of the soul, and through it the social behavior of individuals is carried out by moving away from taboos and negative behavior and heading towards positive aspects, all of this our children experience during the blessed month of Ramadan .

Ramadan is a good month in which psychological aesthetic values ​​are enhanced in children and help the elderly (pixels)

Charity and helping others

The social advisor points out that "Ramadan is a real opportunity to teach our children the values ​​of our true Islamic religion, which came with noble morals, love, tolerance, helping others, and a Muslim's feeling for his Muslim brother. Goodness through charity and helping others.

In addition to involving them in voluntary work such as distributing water and dates, taking them to mosques, and teaching them the importance of respecting this holy place through discipline.

It also stresses the need for parents to take advantage of this holy month to correct some of the negative actions of their children, and replace them with benign behavior based on the fact that doing some behaviors and actions is not permissible in this holy month, and that is by explaining some religious stories and sermons in a gentle manner that is appropriate for the ages of our children.

She notes that we can read religious stories to our children, and show targeted films that contain benign messages, as they may modify and improve their personality.

Parents should pay attention to the idea of ​​role models during the holy month by evaluating the behavior of children and initiating good social work for the children to learn from them.

The month of Ramadan is an opportunity to modify the negative behavior of children and teach them patience and endurance of hunger and thirst (Pixels)

educational values

The educational and family specialist, Ayesh Nawaisa, says, "The month of Ramadan, in which fasting was imposed, is an educational month, as there is no meaning in abstaining from food and drink from dawn to sunset without training oneself and developing individual and collective self-values. Fasting is an educational message aimed at accustoming people to patience and endurance." .

Here, children can be educated on the habit of patience and endurance of hunger and thirst, and reflecting it as an educational model in which children compare their situation, and the poverty and extreme hunger that children suffer in other areas, and here lies the educational value, praise and thank God, and the preservation of blessings and not to waste them, according to Nawaisa.

Nawaisa explains that "Ramadan is an opportunity to promote social values ​​among children, and is expressed in children's interest in forming a social relationship with other children, such as their love, assistance and friendship, cooperation with them in charitable works in mosques, and assistance in associations in distributing water and aid and others."

In addition to accustoming them to effective social communication with their peers in the neighborhood, and encouraging them even to play collective popular games in Ramadan.

Ayesh Nawaisa: Ramadan develops economic values ​​for children, such as not being extravagant and extravagant (Al-Jazeera)

development of economic values

Nawaisa points out that "the holy month has a role in developing economic values ​​for children, including not extravagance and extravagance, and economic solidarity with others in need by putting forward ideas related to the behavior of donating, for example, money or the piggy bank or participating in an association aimed at helping poor families, as well as accustoming children to To adjust their expenses according to their urgent needs.

He adds that Ramadan is a good month in which the psychological and aesthetic values ​​of children are enhanced by reflecting on the nature and purpose of fasting and its reflection on the refinement and elevation of the soul, away from thinking about the formality of worldly life.

He continues, "Fasting enhances individual or personal values, and expresses them with children's interest in some of the traits and traits that he admires, and related to personality during fasting and its various aspects related to loving and helping others and avoiding quarrels and others."