Stop Letting Boys Run Wild!!!

herjihad wrote: Bismillah, "a boy is not like a girl. a girl needs to be looked and taken care of. not a boy. a boy needs to be rough and tough. i tell, leave the boys alone, he can handle himself, but if you leave the girls alone they may slip badly. so leave the boys, but keep a close watch on the girls." You're funny, Brother Salman!  I suspect that most of the sisters on this forum had more of a childhood like mine where they ran and played getting bumps and bruises just like the boys you are used to.  And that's what I saw in Jordan up to a point, that is until puberty or until the extended family noticed that their girls were getting grown up.

sister herjihad, my saying that if you leave the girls alone they may slip badly i did not mean to say that they may fall down thud ! or get bruises or such things. i actually meant to say that if you leave the girls alone they may get off the track or deviate from the track in their lives.

Bismillah,

"a boy is not like a girl. a girl needs to be looked and taken care of. not a boy. a boy needs to be rough and tough. i tell, leave the boys alone, he can handle himself, but if you leave the girls alone they may slip badly. so leave the boys, but keep a close watch on the girls."

You're funny, Brother Salman!  I suspect that most of the sisters on this forum had more of a childhood like mine where they ran and played getting bumps and bruises just like the boys you are used to.  And that's what I saw in Jordan up to a point, that is until puberty or until the extended family noticed that their girls were getting grown up.

All children need protection from evil.  From the evil of the predators out there in this world and from the evils of letting them run wild, as Sister Jenni's cogent topic elucidates.  Brother Salman, I assume that you are a young man, not yet a father.  Take our advice and care for your boys when Allah, SWT blesses you with some, not from silly bumps and bruises although you should keep the peroxide and bandaids handy, but from the social deviants that seek to misguide them and from the whisperings of Shaytan that encourage them to do misguided things.

Bismillah,

For how long and to waht extent you can keep tab on 'em?

you cant win.

Grasshopper,

I am not in this life to win, but to run the race as Allah, SWT wills.

Bismillah,

-ArabianKnight- wrote: herjihad wrote: Many is the time I tracked my boys down to let them know that yes, All, SWT, is watching them, but I'm keeping track as best as I can on this earth also!  (Whew!  This is tiring.  Sure wish I had some help!)   Just out of curosity.. how do you end up tracking them down?... I have this image in my mind of you running down the street chasing after some boy.. haha..  but I doubt thats true...

Not just "some boy", my son!  I don't have much chance of chasing and catching him because at 12 he's faster than me!  For example, he went to his friend's to get a homework list and didn't come back for 30 minutes.  So I went looking for him and found him in the neighborhood playing on the edge of the woods with the other kids.