As I had my first born, I decided from the very first Ramadan that I’d try to make this month fun filled and enjoyable so that he cherishes the month and waits for the next Ramadan eagerly. Similarly, since we have two holidays I decided to make the most of those two holidays as well so that he never misses out on the things we try to avoid or not celebrate.
Deciding and “pinteresting” about these things are the easy parts..what’s hard is implying those in actual life.. and it gets tougher with a new born. However, since the Shayateen are chained, perhaps Allah has made it easy for me and other mothers to cope up with the probable tasks of procrastination.
This year, my big one turns 5 inshAllah. He understands a lot of things including where Allah is and how He (swt) is the Most Powerful. Hence I decided I would teach him the attributes of Allah (swt) by going through the 99 names.
Along with those, I planned on teaching what Sunnah is and why should we do it, which would lead to why we love Muhammad (pbuh) so much.
Another thing that I wanted to add is daily goals. This would help him (and me) to plan to develop good habits and abide by it inshaAllah. And as a result of the Shayateen being chained, it might actually help us more and make it easy for us to change ourselves.
Last but not the least, I will be adding a list where we jot down the things we are grateful for.. like our body, the senses, nature, etc. and will try to relate it to Allah and how He (swt) has blessed us.
With each of these activities, I plan on putting updates of how a 5 year old’s mind wanders and how he seizes this in his mind and implements in his daily life.
I ask the readers to make dua for my family and I hope we can make the most of Ramadan. May Allah enable us to lead our children into a good Islamic environment. Have a blessed Ramadan. Ameen.
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