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We are a working family and so we didn't give enough time for our children while they were growing up and naturally the day care and the school essentially raised them. We didn't give them any moral, ethical teaching. We know a friend of ours whose children turned out to be of excellent manners and highly respectful of elders. Simply speaking they are adorable children. I am amazed these children also turned out to be super-performer in their education as well. It seems that the mother of this model family stayed home while the children were growing up and the parents would always take their children to the local Islamic centres. We used to mock (joke) them as fundamentalists but it looks like they did the right thing.

Now I believe Australia has given us the freedom to do what is best for us. We have a choice to guide our family's life in the right direction. Now I realize how God has given us a choice of either to accept Him and lead a meaningful life or to deny Him and lead a transient superficial life of enjoyment and misguidance to be followed by a life of misery and pain. When I read about the violent crimes committed by youths in the Australian's schools or society I know right away who should shoulder the primary responsibility for such crimes.

OUR RESPONSIBILITIES

Children are born innocent and it is our responsibility, as parents, to give them love, affection and the best moral environment so that they can turn out to be kind compassionate and responsible youth. What can we expect if our children are raised by the immoral TV programs, Internet, violent video games and by an uncaring day care centre whose main objective is to make money like everybody else? We can't have a whole village here to raise our children and so you have to play the role of the whole village; the aunts, the uncles, the grannies and the neighbours.

Teaching children morality and love of our beloved prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) through God consciousness is the solution to this great problem of teen violence. Fortunately, there are few of Islamic schools, or weekend Islamic schools offering better than standard public school curriculum with an element of moral teaching have sprang out all over Australia in the last few years. Thus at this time there are plenty of opportunities to expose the children to the proper environment. Our children are a loan from God and we would be accountable on how we raise them. It is a twenty-four hour duty of the parents to care for their children's education. Hence upbringing does not stop after sending your child to an Islamic school or to weekend Islamic school. It is a twenty-four hours process of providing them a good, lovingly Islamic environment at home is well by implementing Islam in your life. And this process of upbringing your child starts from the mother lap. Good parenting is the key to have a great family and great Human society.

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