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need sinus help dr hive....
Amirah replied to HollyDay's topic in General Education Discussion Board
me and my husband have really bad sinus problems and mine are more allergy related we use eucalyptus oil. what you do is boil a pot of water on the stove once its boiling add some drops of the oil then you would cover your head with a towel standing over the pot( turn the stove off first) and just inhale it. for us it works. it clears it up within a few minutes. sometimes we add ginger root which is a natural antihistamine. not sure if thats what your looking for or not -
Too young to marry? How 'young' were you?
Amirah replied to Stillwood's topic in General Education Discussion Board
got married at 22 Dh was 36. i "waited" too (husband was previously married)we been married 4 1/2 yrs now. i know ppl who got married at 18 and are still married so its not necessarily divorce bound -
which language would you pick?
Amirah replied to EthiopianFood's topic in General Education Discussion Board
I'm american and i'm fluent in spanish and i can hold my own in french and i am currently learning arabic. so there are many americans who speak more than one language and i never took spanish until university and i went straight into adv. courses( i self taught myself and grew up in an area where spanish is everywhere.) anyways i think you should teach whatever language you feel is going to be doable for you and your child with access to materials that you or a tutor can use to teach. spanish can be picked up at anytime so i think hindi would be a good choice or any language that is deemed important -
Lions and Tigers and Bears, OH MY!
Amirah replied to BatmansWife's topic in General Education Discussion Board
my mom just told me about this because she lives not far from there. i hope everything is going to be ok -
which do you think is better for a left handed person? because i am just incapable of working properly with my right hand and i can just totally see myself slicing myself up.
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thanks everyone for being so helpful. i dont have a particular project in mind. husband got excited when i said i wanted to learn to sew so i have tons of fabric, sewing machine and all kind of needles, pins, etc. but i decided quilting would be a better hobby and more practical for me. i am keeping a eye on this thread and making a list of everything you are saying :lurk5:
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thanks for this! I love the look and set up of these books I am adding them to my list
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thanks so much!!
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I am interested in learning how to quilt but can't take a physical class is there any books or dvd i could teach myself from. i know there is a website called quilt university but i dont know how good their classes are though.
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Any great android educational apps?
Amirah replied to NoPlaceLikeHome's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
I'm so glad for someone starting this thread. I really want to get a tablet for my own personal school work but I am also thinking about something for my lil one to be able to use as well. I have a ipod touch and really am considering an ipad just for the apps available so i am hoping android has quite a few so i can save some money -
Do you wear a headcovering for religious reasons?
Amirah replied to Parrothead's topic in General Education Discussion Board
Yep, I cover head and face(niqab) for religious reasons. -
my son is almost 2.5 and i am sure this is probably just the terrible 2's but i feel like i am at a lost sometimes. this is my first child and me and my husband are pretty much alone as our families live in different countries than us. i have no experience with kids so i feel like i am screwing him up because i dont know how to do stuff. he doesn't talk yet and we dont plan to do speech therapy until 3yr. because we are doing one parent one language (arabic/english) and i read that there could be a delay in speech but he is not delayed in non verbal. he just started eating solids. I was overfeeding him milk and not enough food he got low iron and just stopped eating totally. this was my fault because i had no clue that yo have to cut down on the bottle when u start solids. he is eating a variety of stuff now but tiny amounts and he screams and cries when he sees food. then he eats a bite and usually eats the whole amount. he gets bored easily. he only likes to do stuff for like 5 minutes and thats it. he pretty much just just throws stuff everywhere. so what i am am asking is advice on raising a toddler any advice is helpful. how do i encourage talking in either language( he understands both but wont speak either)? what do i feed this kid? i feel like im starting from scratch with food and have no clue what they like at this age?(we don't do prepackaged or canned foods) what kind of activities should i do with him at home? does it get better? plz tell me it gets better! i feel so overwhelmed sometime to the point i don't want to even have more kids after him. I do love kids though and would like to have atleast 3 or 4 if i survive this one any help is appreciated
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Have you ever been to Africa?
Amirah replied to Hannah's topic in General Education Discussion Board
I have been to Algeria for vacation(husband is from there and whole family still lives there.) I loved it! i also used to live in ft. worth tx for a yr and went to University of North Texas -
Anyone who wants my BFSU Vol2 flowchart...
Amirah replied to momto2Cs's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
I pm'd you. Thanks so much for making this I am a little bit away from this but this will definetly give me enough time to prep with an actual flowchart because I'm really not good at those things lol -
i know ppl this has happened too as well. i am american but live i canada and even here i am careful. i remember someone sent me a link to a islamic forum that turned out to be crazy and i freaked out because i know what happens. i dont even think i will take my computer with me if i travel to the states because i wear niqab and that already causes enough problems
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just wanted to comment here. I live in Canada and I wear the niqab (face covering) and a black abaya( long flowing dress type thing)I wear it by my personal choice. I don't really care what ppl wear that are non Muslims nor would I look at them bad. the only way it really bothers me is if they are half naked(I don't go to the beach) and I have my 2yr old with me. I don't really want him seeing someone with their breasts all out or like recently I took him to a family playground and their were teenagers sunbathing in bikinis on top of the picnic tables right next to the baby swings. As for as other Muslims i don't associate with Muslims that don't wear hijab. I believe Allah asked us to cover and for me if they don't they are disobeying him(not debating) and i don't want to be around them. whatever their reasoning is between them and God but that's how I feel.Let me also say though there are women who cover who I wouldn't associate with either because of other things.
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Scholastic Teacher Express Dollar days exp. 9/20
Amirah replied to mrshomework's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
thanks so much for this i just went and ordered a bunch of stuff :D -
How far in advance do you plan your children's schooling?
Amirah replied to tntgoodwin's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
i have a mental idea of what i would like accomplished up to grade 12. i have a 2yr old so on paper i have until the 2nd grade planned out with curriculum and everything. obviously this can change if they stop selling items or something better comes along but if not i will use what i have listed in my notes for him -
What curriculum are you using to teach Arabic?
Amirah replied to Little Nyssa's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
i would like more info when you got home if that wouldn't be too much trouble. i hope u have a safe trip and i will keep and eye out -
What curriculum are you using to teach Arabic?
Amirah replied to Little Nyssa's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
Can I ask why it didn't work for your son?everyone I know speaks fluent Arabic so the curriculum doesn't really matter for them but that's not the case for me so I would definetly appreciate your opinion -
What curriculum are you using to teach Arabic?
Amirah replied to Little Nyssa's topic in K-8 Curriculum Board
im not teaching my little one with curriculum yet because he is two young but i plan to use iqra arabic reader http://www.noorart.com/school_section/iqra_arabic_reader_series_arabic_curriculum i will use the new edition which from my understanding they plan to redo all the levels and it will go up to 12th grade. i live this because it has the instructions in both english and arabic. now i am using this more for conversational arabic. i plan to use Ad-duha for islamic studies and Quranic arabic. outside support is my husband who spekas arabic as well as me inshallah i can read and write and will continue taking arabic for my islamic studies degree -
National Geographic, child bride article...
Amirah replied to fairfarmhand's topic in General Education Discussion Board
thank you for posting this!! -
National Geographic, child bride article...
Amirah replied to fairfarmhand's topic in General Education Discussion Board
no i am sorry to say i haven't read this book yet. i have heard of the author before(not much but i heard her name mentioned a few times.) i will answer your question though. She is absolutely right there is no verses that support positions like that. women are suppose to pray behind men but that can be a few rows behind or in a seperate area. mainly because its mandatory for the man to go to the mosque and pray unless he just is unable. honestly the seperation is convenient for women because there are normally men coming in late for prayers and they join the back of the men line. now if the women line starts right behind the men the women will get distracted by all these people and lose focus on the pray (plus we are not suppose to cut infront of someone praying). also there is nothing in the Quran that says women can't work or go to school or any other silly things as long as she is not neglecting her children and husband and house duties. -
National Geographic, child bride article...
Amirah replied to fairfarmhand's topic in General Education Discussion Board
To turn this back to the original subject of the thread, many of the practices we find repugnant are based on a premise that women are inferior to men. A huge proportion of those societies which practice things such as child marriage (really, child rape) and female genital mutilation are Islamic, a fact which I do not find coincidental. Though these practices owe their beginnings to obscure cultural roots pre-dating Islam and Christianity, the reason that they are still being practiced today is due in large part, to the sustained belief that women are born to be owned and used by men. Islam does promote a view of women, in my opinion, that relegates them to second-class status. Here in the West, Christian societies in the past have also had its times when 11-14 year old girls would be married off by their fathers to other full grown men. Do you think it was any less hideous an existence for those girls? The only difference between our societal past and the present situation of these poor child brides is that their societies have not undergone their Enlightenment. We've moved pass that stage, but we still promulgate some of the same ideals that supported those practices then and now, in other societies. And those ideals, based upon not just Christian, but Islamic, and Hindi concepts (it seemed few religions could pass up the opportunity to degrade women) could be summed up as: Women are given over to the authority of men, because they are too weak, or too emotional, or too easily deceived to make their own choices, and be their own authority. Abolish that premise, and replace it with a simple: Men and women are equally valuable to the species emotionally, intellectually, physically, and psychologically, and therefore should be equally empowered to determine their own fate. Do that, and the entire underpinnings of sexist practice from child marriage to over-controlling husbands in the West are undone. i just wanted to say while you have every right to your opinion, i am a muslim woman married to a muslim man and i am in NO Way 2nd class and never have been because true Islam doesn't make women second class its people with twisted mentalities that do. some of the most important people in the history of islam are women and alot of important knowledge came from and was taught to other men by women. i don't agree with a child getting married and when i say this i mean child by the definition in Islam which is someone who hasn't hit puberty. i am against forcing someone to get married because this is a cultural issue as well as genital mutilation and honor killings. i feel so bad for this girls and something needs to be done about it. forcing someone to do something they don't want to do is never ok ever. side note: i know some may get tired of me jumping in and standing up for Islam. i have to do it i don't think ppl have to agree but i have to at least say the truth. i can't sit back and let people perpetuate false stereotypes or misguiding of some people as the teachings of the my religion when its not