Praying Time!!

For sure, children are copy cats! So one has to be very careful while dealing with kids!! They observe and imitate, gradually our activities will be there lifestyle!!

MashAllah!! Manha tried to imitate me while i offer prayers! Her grandparents bought her prayer mat and a lil scarf from Makkah! She pray beside me and try to copy my actions!!Sometime she also gets irritated while i pray, as i am not responding to her! But overall, it makes me feel great that Alhamdulillah she is influenced from her surrounding!

Then i tried to gave her concept of Dua. So I started reciting dua's while waking up, sleeping, entering  or exiting washroom and before or after eating etc with action and words. I say "Aameen!" aloud and ask her to do so!

This also motivates me to learn other daily dua's which i don't know myself! I hang dua cards in room in order to learn them and make her learn! Many dua stickers are available in bookstores such as Darussalam and also available free printable online!

http://www.mini-mumin.com/Downloads.html

I bought it from learning roots, indeed a great resource for Islamic stuff!!

https://www.learningroots.com/duaa-prayer

Now Alhamdulillah  she is quite habitual of reciting dua especially before sleeping and after waking up! Loved to hear her aloud "AAMEEN!!" :)

Homemade Flash Cards!!

After learning some through flash cards which i bought, i made some for her!!

tree, apple, fish, kaaba,orange, sun, star

i use formic sheet and card board and lamination sheets for coating!

MashAllah, now she spell names of all of them and sort out similar objects by herself!!

She is always very keen to learn through these cards!!  :) 

How little the task is..but it makes me feel accomplished by her great response Alhamdulillah!!

Body Parts!!

Our very first lessons in the world of learning!! When she was one, i helped her to explore her body parts - one of our favorite teaching topic!! She enjoys it a lot!! Have made so many videos of her on this!

Now she points body parts of her dolls, toys and  points it out on human and animal images!
It really helps in communicating  if child  is able to identify her body parts at early age!

Manha's Corner!!

Time to explore but mummies hearts are not BIG enough to gave them all space which a child terribly want!!

 At least i don't have one, cleanliness is also important for me!! But at the same time ..i want her to explore, to play ,to have fun!! So, i made a corner in my room, which is her property!! She can do anything there..play, sleep, read, jump, create mess with her toy as she wants but oh yes..no scribbling - for that she has wipe and clean board!!

She loves to have her own space, where she sit on her sofa read and play!! She also invites us to her corner by saying in a very sweet tone "SIT DOWN" and "BHAITOW" - in urdu!! I am also trying to make her habit to clean her space by herself!

In future will surely make her corner more creative and colorful!!

I think, we should provide kids some space inside or outside home where they can enjoy and explore things with their fullest extent without any restrictions, rules and regulations!! After all they are children! :)

Fun with Flash Cards!!

When Manha was six month, I had an opportunity to visit International Book Fair 2013 at Expo Center, Karachi!! Yes, an opportunity because the next year i can't even imagine visiting book fair with  such a tenacious toddler!! :)

Well, Alhamdulillah, I bought so many books even  beyond preschool!!My hubby and my in laws were in shocked that what sort of books i was buying, as she was only six months..BUT, I was so excited to have them for my lil one!! 

Now finally the time has come, MashALLAH, she loves to learn through books, flash cards- her all time favorite!!She sit on her own and ask me "Aami" and her "Baba" to read to her ..or sometimes she pretend reading when we are reading something besides her!!

SubhanALLAH children observes and imitates!! Its never too early to give a book to a child!!

So, we started with some books and with few flash cards!

MashALLAH, she has learn and can identify things not only in flash cards but in real life interactions as well! Also she can pronounce them, which helps her to communicate with us!!

So far she has learnt following words:

Apple, Orange, Book, Cat, Dog, Fish, Star, Sun etc through flash cards!!

It's really fun using flash cards, as she is always curious that whats next card is about! No doubt, one has to be careful like puzzles in order to keep back a complete set of cards!! :)

Puzzle solving

Oh she loves to solve puzzles!!

She was gifted shapes and alphabet board puzzles! At first i used to demonstrate her, with my astonishment she grasp it very quickly and she easily solve puzzles of shaping objects..now a days working on alphabet puzzle!!

But its also creates mess as she spread all over the room, then we play hide and seek in search for a single piece! :D

Learning through educational toys

Lil "Manha" has turned 1.7 years!! MashAllah!! She is active in fact super active, creative and genius!! I believe every child is born with such qualities or many other good ones,  its just we as parents have to explore them by giving exposure of appropriate things at appropriate times in order to bloom themselves!!

Since she was one year old, i try to facilitate her to learn through play, books, real life activities and through selected media content.

When she was one, her uncle and aunt gifted her sorting educational toy, it was really fun for her..she really enjoyed playing with it..now  by practicing she mastered to sort out shapes in its given places!!

Stacking and sorting are great activities for toddlers!!
Also  she loved to play with stacking rings, at first she randomly stack rings .. but with time mashAllah she judges the sizes of rings!!

Through these, she identify shape and size differences, have better motor skills! And above all she is motivated to do it again and again!!

There are many other educational toys available in market through which child can discovers the world of learning through play.Especially good when mother don't have time to plan some activities for his/her lil one!!

What i realize that one should never underestimate children abilities, they are very good observers and can perform task  mashAllah in little time!!

It makes me feel so great when she asks me to play with her these stuff enthusiastically!! :)