The entitlement of young people in fasting the month of Ramadan is one of the good educational virtues that the parents are harvesting after the arrival of their children to puberty, when this is due to instilling the values of ethics and their honors in the hearts of children since their childhood, and their accustoming to the performance of obedience and preserving them to the fullest extent, which develops a feeling of happiness closer to God Almighty and obtaining his consent to gain the blessed life. And piety.
Muslims are investigating the date of the month of Ramadan by the difference of patience, as it is a great opportunity that is renewed every year, and an exceptional occasion that the parents exploit in accustoming their children to the performance of fasting in particular, and on other teachings of Islam as the performance of Tarawih prayer in mosques, preserving the reading of the Qur’an, good manners, self -refinement, uterus link, and other ethics and Islamic ethics.
But how is the child’s education starting to fast and deal with the challenges of the beginning of the implementation of the idea facing both parents with their young?
It is natural that we find many children facing in their first fasting challenges to get used to refraining from eating and drinking and the accompanying hunger and thirst, as well as some games that they used to play on a daily basis, and many parents may be confused about the appropriate age to start raising the accustoming children to fasting, and the right ways to train them without harming their health, in order to give them an opportunity to understand the Ramadan values The virtue, the collective breakfast, and the help of the needy.
Many parents, after making sure of their physical integrity, resort to the method of encouragement and promotion of reward, as children with their prostration prefer encouragement and motivation to make a specific behavior, and enhance it with a reward, whether material or moral after doing the behavior to continue to perform it, and it is necessary to prepare them to fast by mentioning the virtues of the month, and then we start with them with gradually intermittent fasting, as if it fasts from the morning to the morning And then extend the period in the following days.
And he does not lose sight of the importance of having used the child to eat suhoor meal in order to have an energy that enables him to complete fasting, and he must also give him the opportunity to choose the type of healthy and appropriate food for him, which will be prepared for breakfast and involved in preparing it, as this makes him feel the love of fasting and continuing it throughout the holy month.
The virtue education for children contains a great challenge, and needs to make an effort and a lot of seeking to reach the best results in raising a conscious and strong Muslim generation, who has the ability to adhere to all the obligatory prayers in order to come to God Almighty.
