If you haven’t read the accompanying essay, start here:
In this episode:
I share something personal about a label I was given as a child that was meant as a compliment and the mark it left that I’m still untangling as an adult.
I talk honestly about a pattern I see across our community, parents who use fear, threats and comparison without connecting any of it to the child’s behavior they’re desperate to change, and why that blind spot keeps the cycle going.
And I walk you through what I actually believe the long game looks like, not as a theory, but from the other side of it, as a mother who has watched her children choose well when no one was watching.
This episode is for the Muslim parent who’s trying to do better than what was done to them, who’s in the thick of daily parenting and can’t always see what’s accumulating, and who needs to hear that the quiet, unglamorous work of explaining and trusting and repairing is not nothing. It’s everything.
You’re doing better than you think.
With du’a, Gulnaz Halal Parenting
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