Parent Education and Resources

Teaching your Child about Islam, by  Dr. Freda Shamma

Helping your Child with Homework – This is the department of education’s site that has a good handbook to help parents with their child’s homework.

What We Should Be Teaching Our Children, By Imam Zaid on 30 April 2006 – This article was a summary of a talk Imam Zaid gave at one of Northstar School’s Parent’s Nights.

TV linked to child smoking and lower test scores.  Here is one more article confirming just a few of the negative effects of TV.

Commensense media schools–   Good resouce for parents to get educated about media.

• Give parents positive, practical information about cyberbullying, social networking, video games, and more
• Support parent involvement on important media and technology issues