What is your child reading?
Sister Rasheedah Abdul Hakeem, certified reading specialist MS Ed, gives a few points to ponder regarding traditional children's stories.
- Non-Islamic stories promote--
- immorality
- Shirk (Wizard of Oz, Cinderella)
- Support of promiscuity (Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs)
- Cannibalism (Hansel and Gretel)
- Support of stealing (Goldilocks)
- Sexual Molestation/Approaching Zina (Snow White, Sleeping Beauty)
- Magic, Violence
Learn more about her reading book for young learners:
Islamic Sight Word Stories for Beginning Readers
at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNGUsL5jYQg
Grandma Jeddah is an elementary-middle school teacher who has taught at an Islamic School in Los Angeles, California for over 35 years. She is the founder of MuslimSchoolBooks, a publishing company that produces Islamic oriented educational books and materials for Islamic Schools and homeschool families. Subscribe to her quarterly youth newsletter, Habibi Youth, at www.MuslimSchoolBooks.com
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