Positive Parenting in the Muslim Home: A 2-Part In Person Workshop

Positive Parenting in the Muslim Home is a two-part in-person workshop rooted in the principles of Positive Discipline and mindful, faith-centered parenting.

💵 One ticket ($65.99) covers both sessions.

This immersive experience will help parents explore how to be both kind and firm, connect with their children through rahmah (mercy), and replace control with connection.

📅 Schedule

• Session 1: Saturday, December 6, 2025 | 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
• Session 2: Saturday, December 20, 2025 | 1:00 PM–4:00 PM

📍 Location: Aya Montessori

Please note: Attendance at both sessions is required for the full experience.

Overview of Positive Discipline

Positive Discipline is based on the philosophies of Alfred Adler and Rudolf Dreikurs. These psychiatrists understood the importance of maintaining dignity and respect for all---including children. Positive discipline workshops provide parents with non-punitive methods to encourage and empower children and adults, and to help them develop valuable social and life skills.

Key objectives of the workshops are outlined below:

· Connection before correction: Making sure the message of love and respect gets through before we correct our children.

· Kindness and Firmness simultaneously: Providing a foundation where parents are kind and firm at the same time when setting expectations and boundaries.

· Seeing mistakes as wonderful opportunities to learn: Both parents and children make mistakes. This is a wonderful opportunity to model repair and reconciliation where we model how to truly apologize.

· Helping children explore the consequences of their choices, through curiosity questions instead of imposing consequences, which are actually poorly disguised punishments that make the children pay for their mistakes.

· Logical consequences are usually poorly disguised punishment and that in positive discipline we advocate “no more logical consequences---- at least hardly ever.”

· We focus on problem solving and solutions. By focusing on solutions, children can get involved and have ownership and motivation to follow guidelines they help create. Examples include:

• Helping children create routine charts
• Family Meetings
• Helping children create a wheel of choice
• Eliminating negative time out and inviting children to help create a ‘positive time out’ area that they can ‘choose’ to go to when a cooling off time would be helpful

· Getting into a child’s world: We must understand that a ‘misbehaving child’ is a ‘discouraged’ child and the importance of dealing with the ‘belief’ behind the behavior.

· And many more ideas for treating children with dignity and respect

The five criteria for positive discipline:

1. Is it respectful? Is it being both kind and firm at the same time?

2. Does it help children feel both belonging and significance?

3. Is this effective in the long term?

4. Does it teach valuable social and life skills for good character?

5. Does it invite children to discover how capable they are and how to use their power constructively?