<p>Creativity is at the epicentre of human exploration and discovery. Creativity is a force that nurtures human development, innovation and helps us appreciate nature around us. Everyone is creative. Being creative helps children to look within themselves, take a pause and helps them to calm down.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Below are a few ways to nurture your child’s creative ideas and imaginative spirit:</strong></p><ol><li><strong>Encourage possibility thinking:</strong> Pose the “What if?” question in front of your child in as many ways as possible; these help children naturally think of creative possibilities for everything they encounter.</li><li><strong>Nurture your child’s interests:</strong> Allow your children to choose their after-school activities. Encourage them to more deeply explore those activities in essays and projects at school.</li><li><strong>Expand the language of emotion:</strong> Being able to understand and describe emotions is critical to the creative process. Help them with the emotional vocabulary so that they can express their feelings better.</li><li><strong>Play, play, play:</strong> Through imaginative play, children explore their ideas and create meaning about the world around them. It is better to provide all kinds of art supplies - crayons, play dough, construction paper, glitter to your child so that (s)he can create freely.</li><li><strong>Explore the beauty of nature:</strong> The natural world inspires children to think, question, make suppositions, instil problem-solving skills, and develop creative minds. Children can draw in the sand, make designs with twigs, build forts with branches, or simply lie on the ground and look up at the sky.</li><li><strong>Advocate for the daydreamer:</strong> When kids daydream, they explore associations, make connections, and search for possibilities. Daydreaming and a bit of solitude for reflection are among the attributes of highly creative people.</li><li><strong>Invent scenarios:</strong> Invent scenarios with your child. This way (s)he will try on lots of different roles and organise his/her thoughts while developing social and verbal skills. Encourage your child to play house, doctor, zoo, farm, space station, school, or store.</li><li><strong>Verbal activities:</strong> From rhymes to riddles (check our rhymes and riddles content to get you started), silly sounds to phonics, games such as "I Spy" (and many more activities on our app), verbal interactive activities can inspire and nurture creative minds.</li><li><strong>Encourage art activities:</strong> Through painting, sculpture, collage, clay, drawing or any other medium, art is a way for children to work through emotions, make decisions, and express their ideas.</li><li><strong>Ask open-ended and thought-provoking questions:</strong> Asking questions that provoke imaginative and creative thinking is an effective way to invite your child to express his/her ideas and share his/her visions. "What do you think would happen if….?" "What's the difference between a dog and a cat?" "What are some other ways to do this?" are a few questions to get you started.</li><li><strong>Limit screen time:</strong> Nurturing imagination and parenting in the digital age can be tough. Focusing on a screen is a passive way of learning for children. Engaging children in a kinesthetic manner using their entire bodies and their five senses helps in deep learning and also opens up their minds.</li><li><strong>Remember to allow for downtime:</strong> Unstructured, unscheduled time allows children opportunities to imagine and create.</li><li><strong>Limit electronic toys:</strong> Electronic toys don’t engage a child’s imagination and so children are simply better off playing with a basic wooden toy.</li><li><strong>Ask questions about their creations:</strong> Kids have their own thought processes, and we can’t always see what they are thinking just by looking at something they’ve made. Ask them what they have created to help them articulate their process and the ideas behind what they thought of creating and what they ended up creating.</li><li><strong>Respect:</strong> Respecting that each child has the right to be himself/herself and believing in his/her uniqueness builds your child’s confidence. Respect his/her imagination and fantasies.</li><li><strong>Base on Values Not Rules:</strong> Too many rules hinder creativity. If you let your children decide their behaviour according to those values, creativity will flourish.</li></ol><p><br></p><p><strong>Here are some examples of comments that nurture the creative environment:</strong></p><ul><li>“It’s fun to try it different ways”</li><li>“Tell me about it”</li><li>“Let’s try it anyway”</li><li>“Have you thought of any alternatives?”</li><li>“I see you are having a lot of fun”</li></ul><p><br></p>

Creativity is at the epicentre of human exploration and discovery. Being creative helps children to look within themselves, take a pause and helps them to calm down.

Nurturing your child's Creativity

<p>Being creative helps a child take a pause from the constant running about of life and makes them feel relaxed.</p>

Nurturing your childs Creativity

<p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“There is no gift a parent can give his child that is better than good manners.”</span></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Respect your children and talk to them with good manners and a likeable method.”</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"Whoever wishes that his children are safe from disinheritance, he should help them perform good deeds.”</span></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“The best gift from parents to their children is education and upbringing.”</span>&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Play with them for the first seven years of their life; then teach them for the next seven years; then advise them for the next seven years.”</span>&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“May Allāh have mercy on the person that helps his child in doing good.”&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Love children and be kind to them."</span>&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Treat your children fairly, treat your children fairly.”&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"The best thing a father provides to his child is good manners and ethical training.”&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“May Allah bless the parents who trained their children to behave justly with them."</span>&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Kiss your children profusely, because every time you kiss the child, Allah will advance your position in Heaven by one stage."</span>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Maintain justice among your children in gifts, just like you would like them to be just with you in goodness and affection.”&nbsp;</span></p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Like your children and treat them with affection and kindness. When you make a promise to them, you must keep it, because children consider you their sustainer.”</span>&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">“Respect your children and give them a good upbringing that Allah blesses you."</span>&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Anybody who called a child, saying that he would give him a certain thing, and did not give it, speaks a lie.”&nbsp;</span>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">“Never beat the children if they cry. Fulfil their needs. Because, for the first four months of the life of a child’, its cries are a witness to the Existence and Unity of Allah, Almighty</span><strong style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">.</strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">"</span></p>

Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) Hadiths On Parent-Child Relationship. The most basic and necessary manners that teach us how to raise a child. 

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<p>Parent-child Relationship is one of the things that is the most sacred thing in the world. Hadiths by Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) related to this beautiful relationship will tell us its importance.</p>

Prophet Muhammad Hadiths On Parent Child Relationship Part 1

<p><strong>How to play truth or dare with children and family:</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>The rules are simple:</strong></p><ul><li>Players take turns to be asked “Truth or Dare.”</li><li>The player chooses to either tell the truth when asked a question or carry out a dare.</li><li>A question or dare is then selected, and the player either answers the question or does the dare.</li><li>Afterwards, the next player takes their turn, and so on.</li><li>There are no winners and the game ends when players have had enough.</li></ul><p><br></p><h4><strong>30 Truth Questions for Truth or Dare Challenge for Children</strong></h4><p><br></p><h5><strong>Q1: What would you do if your mother gives you 100 Rs?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know what is on a child's mind regarding money.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q2: If you are given some clay, what would you carve out of it?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know about the creativity and thought processes of the child.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q3: Whom do you watch TV with?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know if the child is watching television alone or with adults around.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q4: Can you count 1 to 20 backwards?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know what is concentration power and awareness in a child.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q5: Magic show, circus, zoo or cartoon - what will you choose?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know the child’s present mood or simply his/her liking towards mystery, connectivity with nature or if (s)he desires to be in his/her own space.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q6: What is your favourite body part on yourself?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know a child's inclination towards beauty or not and what is important to them. Beauty or functionality.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q7: Have you ever cheated to win a game?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know whether the child is fearless to confess or feels guilty about cheating.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q8: Do you like writing letters and numbers?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know whether the child in their early childhood, gets pressured by the academics.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q9: Which word did you hear the most this week?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know if the child is listening to a lot of NOs or being exposed to some word (s)he should not be.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q10: Where do you like to spend your time?</strong></h5><h6>You can identify the people who make him/her feel secure.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q11: How do you help your mother at home?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know if the child is involved in household chores and if (s)he is given enough opportunities for the development of life skills, survival skills, fine motor and gross motor skills.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q12: Have you ever stayed at your friend’s place to study but played instead?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know if the study circles are fruitful and if appropriate activities are happening during study circles.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q13: What do you address your house-help?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know if the child is respectful towards people, be it of any strata.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q14: Do you like it when your clothes are neatly stacked or when they are kept in a pile?</strong></h5><h6>You can identify the aesthetic sense and orderliness in the child.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q15: Which game do you enjoy playing with your parents?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know Why the child likes the particular game if that's because of the parent involved, use of touch sense, outdoor or indoor game.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q16: What is the most creative thing you did this week?</strong></h5><h6>You can identify things the child finds creative, also is (s)he getting enough opportunities of creativity.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q17: Do you hide your favourite toys when you don’t want to share them?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know whether the child has a possessive attitude or not.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q18: If you are given some clay, what would you carve out of it?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know about the creativity and thought processes of the child.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q19: Which is your favourite movie?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know about what the child relates to in life, some game, sport, action, emotion, etc.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q20: Which vegetable do you like the most and why?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know about the senses used by the child and whether s/he likes the taste, presentation, smell or likes the person who makes the dish, etc.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q21:What do you love drawing/painting?</strong></h5><h6>You can understand the observation and the likes of the child.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q22: Have you ever missed washing hands after using the toilet?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know if the child is health-conscious or has a careless attitude towards hygiene.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q23: Have you ever used momma’s lipstick secretly?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know opinions about beauty and a child's inclination towards a specific gender.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q24: What are three things you would change about your mother?</strong></h5><h6>You can know about the things that the child likes about his friends’ mothers and things he dislikes about his mother. You can also know their internal idea of mother.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q25: Do you sneak snacks when the mother is not looking?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know whether the child fears the mother to ask for snacks or not.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q26: Have you ever made your class teacher upset?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know whether the Child is observant and aware of people’s emotions around.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q27: What is the last story your father/mother narrated to you?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know if the parents narrate stories.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q28: What did you have in your last meal?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know about the memory of the child and if they pay attention to their meals.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q29: Do you like writing letters and numbers?</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know whether the child in their early childhood, gets pressured by the academics.</h6><h5><br></h5><h5><strong>Q30: Name a famous person that you would like to be friends with.</strong></h5><h6>You can come to know about child’s perception of people, if they believe in what they see and if they get easily influenced.</h6><p><br></p><p><strong>Keep it light, keep it silly, and remember, everyone, is supposed to be having fun.</strong></p>

Truth challenge is perfect for a family game night. You and your child will learn exciting new things from each other! The classic Truth and Dare Challenge game is easy to play.

Best Truth Challenge Questions to Do With Children

<p>Truth or Dare Challenge is one of the all-time classic party games and a great way to get to know your children better in fun ways.</p>

Best Truth Challenge Questions to Play With Children

<p>Kids tend to avoid healthy food due to the high taste levels of junk food. <strong>These activities will be a great help to develop their interest in food:</strong></p><ul><li>Take them for grocery shopping.</li><li>Cook and Bake with them; there is nothing more exciting than this.</li><li>Teach them gardening - grow foods in your backyard.</li><li>Place the food on the plate in the colours of a rainbow; this way you can include all sorts of food on your child's plate. The easiest way is to prepare a food salad or a vegetable salad.</li><li>Hide vegetables and fruits in an opaque box or carry bag and ask the child to close their eyes. Then ask them to put their hand inside the bag, pick up food, feel it and then try to identify the vegetable/fruit through its texture. You can do this activity separately for vegetables and fruits to make it easier for your child.</li><li>Food obstacle course activity. Design an obstacle course in your house where you place different fruits/vegetables as obstacles. The child will have to eat a small portion of that vegetable or fruit before advancing forward. You can carry out this activity in a group and it will be a lot more fun.</li><li>Weave a story around fruits and vegetables and narrate those during their mealtime; check out food-related stories on our app.</li><li>Sing them songs/rhymes about food; you can a few songs related to food on our app.</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Keep in mind:</strong></p><ul><li>Do not give them screens during mealtime; this way they will know what they are eating and will appreciate the food on their plates.</li><li>Let them have their favourite snack or dessert once in a while. But do not use them as treats for eating the food that they like less.</li></ul><p><br></p>

Thinking of interesting ways to present food to your child(ren) will make them eat all types of food.

Activities to encourage and develop child's interest in food

<p>Thinking of interesting ways to present food to your child(ren) will make them eat all types of food.</p>

Activities to develop your child interest in food

<p><span style="background-color: transparent;">It's trickier to keep babies safe in monsoons, but taking care of a few important things can make it alright:</span></p><p><br></p><ul><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Make sure that your baby’s clothes are dry and warm. Clothes often remain cold and damp after a wash in the monsoon. Clothes that remain damp can result in your baby catching a fever or cold. It is also best to opt for breathable cotton fabrics and avoid synthetics that may cause rashes.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Monsoons are always accompanied by several insects and germs like flies, fungus mosquitoes, etc. Hence the chances of babies falling ill also increase during monsoons. To keep your baby free of these, ensure that you and everyone else handling your baby should stay clean. Keep an eye out for nappy rash - change diapers regularly and apply a good diaper rash cream.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Disinfect your home and surroundings too regularly to keep germs away. Unclean surroundings can harbour many disease-causing insects and pests, as well as bacteria.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Monsoon brings with it malaria and dengue causing mosquitoes. To prevent your baby from catching these diseases, it is best to use bed nets or mesh windows. You can also use mosquito repellent creams for your baby after consulting with a doctor. There are also liquid, card and coil repellents available that are safe and effective against mosquitoes.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">It is best not to take your baby out during monsoons, especially when it is raining. The humidity and the change in temperatures might lead to your baby catching the flu. If you have to take your baby out, make sure that your baby is covered correctly and completely dry throughout your outing. If you go out, avoid dirty areas with puddles and mud. Ensure that you are not taking your baby to crowded places as it’s easier to get infected with people around. When you take your child outdoors, keep wet wipes handy to ensure your baby stays clean all the time.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Some infants are allergic to specific pollen and allergens. Make sure your baby is kept away from these during the rains. If you notice any rash, redness or other symptoms, consult your doctor immediately and get it checked.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Check your house for dampness, leakage before the monsoon arrives. Get them fixed if there is a problem. Check for fungus or moulds around the house. Secure the loose electric wiring, if any. Clean the drains and keep bathrooms hygienic</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Always feed freshly prepared food to your baby in monsoon as food tends to spoil quickly in monsoon.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Since you can’t always find clean water when you’re outside, make sure you carry a small bottle of sanitiser and use it to clean your hands whenever handling the baby.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Many doctors recommend getting a flu booster shot when the monsoons are around. Make sure your baby gets all his/her shots before the monsoon.</span></li><li><span style="background-color: transparent;">Since a baby is primary indoors in monsoon (s), he doesn’t need a daily bath. Two to three times a week, and especially around humid times, can give your baby relief from the heat as well. If your child has been outside, definitely give him a nice warm water bath.</span></li></ul>

Taking the right precautionary steps before the arrival of any season will keep your baby safe and healthy.

Monsoon Precautions for Babies | Tips & Precautions

<p>Taking the right precautionary steps before the arrival of any season will keep your baby safe and healthy.</p>

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