mom sharing a bed with her kids

i bath my girls on weekends. all week my 9 yr old bathes herself and her six year old sister and 4 year old brother. but on weekend, i make it my duty to bath each of them. i give them a good scrubbing, cos i feel they too young to do a good job at this age.

thats how i grew up. my mom used to give me a bath on weeknds until i reached puberty. even when i was grown , she would still bath me, if i was ill or she felt i needed a good scrubbing to get all the dirt out.

definately hafya i agree. in some households the father helps around with chores and ive come across people who allow the fathers to bath thier daughters. to me this is unaccpetable. i know of a father who used to bath his 4 year old daughter, in an effort to help his wife. but when his mom learnt of this, she put an end to it, cos she felt it was rather inappropriate.

mothers on the other can should and can give their sons a bath. but up till what age? when does it become inappropriate for a mother to bath her son?

rookaiya wrote: asalamu aliakum i would like to hear objective views on the above topic. i know a sister who is married for the second time. she has a seventeen year old son. each time the sister has a fallout withe her hubby, she moves out of the bed, and sleeps on the floor in the other bedroom. and when this happens, her seventeen year old son sleeps with her in the same bed. her husband is very upset about this. apprarently this is a common practice in this area. in fact some married couples even share a bed with members of their extended familes. they see nothing wrong with this, according to them its an old practice and they are not acting in an unacceptable way secondly, some single moms, may opt to share a bed with their young children. e.g u have a single mom sharing a bed with her 3 year old son. at what age should this practice stop. when does this behaviour become inappropriate? then theres the issue of nudity? being a single mother of boys, at times it hard to know when to draw the line. often at night its so hot and u dont wanna wear too many items of clothing. yet at the same time, u dont wanna expose your children (especially males) to your nudity? is there any ruling on these issues? what is the islamic position here?

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Assalaamualaikum

The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: �Teach your children to pray when they are seven years old and smack them if they do not do so when they are ten years old, and separate them in their beds.� Narrated by Ahmad, 6689; Abu Dawood, 495; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani. 

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