My son asks many questions

Welcome my dear sister and we thank you for your trust.

Rearing needs more concern because by rearing we form a new generation; and how difficult responsibility to have part in forming a man! It is also difficult to leave our fingerprints on the child's personality to grow with him during his lifetime and would have an effect on his confidence, psychology, and his future.

The first years of a child's age are important —opposite to what some people believe— which have the greatest effect on forming its future personality.

Your child seems to be emotional, which means that he needs more concern to train him for dealing smartly with his feelings without suppressing or feeling ashamed of these emotions.

If an emotional person is able to understand and administer his feelings, he will be more successful than others, where strong feelings move him and give him a spirit to continue what he is doing. The most important is to learn how to manage his feelings, control them, and do not let them control him.

You have not told us whether he has brothers, sisters, or not? How do you rear him in general? Is it a strict rearing, protective, democratic, or your master showing love along with strictness?

What is his father's personality, and how does he deal with the child?

If you answer these questions, we shall be more able to help you.

However, in general, we advise you with the following:

● Remember that realizing the nature of your child will help rearing him, not only while he is young, but also when he grows up and becomes an adolescent. Today you build the bridges of friendship which will continue to help you when he grows up.

* Frequent questions is a good sign for the love of knowledge. Often, children ask many questions in such age which may sometimes indicate the dire need for more concern when the child feels the negligence of adults and the lack of concern.

● Give him a special time to feel your concern, read a story, or search for a piece of information together. He is five years old, so he is not young. You can expand his knowledge and teach him how to ask properly and how to search for answers in books or you may consult the experienced people.

● Put some limits to his questions when other people are involved and teach him that it is better to abandon what does not concern him. Some questions expand the horizon, but some of them violate the privacy of others.

● Reinforce his positive behavior and beware not to frustrate his emotional nature; on the contrary, help him to control his feelings and make him feel your nearness and that you care for him. In the meantime, you should put your trust in him and expect that he will benefit from his positive feelings and master how to overcome passive feelings.

● Finally, seek the reward of your rearing from Allah, and supplicate Allah frequently to grant you success and to make it one of the righteous reformers.