Faith IQ – At What Age Should Children Cover Their Private Area & Awrah

Faith IQ

Shaykh Yahya answers

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The speaker discusses the importance of children understanding the meaning of "untangagedness," which is a source of shame. They suggest that children should not be embarrassed by this notion and encourage parents to show them that they have that level of independence. The speaker also mentions that children need to learn about their parents' values and may want to encourage parents to not bring in their children in the presence of their parents.

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			At what age should we get our children to start covering themselves up in particular their private
areas, and they're out in front of their parents?
		
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			This is an interesting question because there are different cultural values, where Muslims and
others reside that have different levels of threshold. Generally speaking, once a child understands
the concept of nakedness, and * as being something that is a source of shame, or something that
should be covered up in front of others, you want to encourage that you don't want to lessen that
inhibition and say, Oh, no, it's okay. But there are moments where you need to go into the bathroom,
make sure they've cleaned behind their ears or something like that. You want to show them that they
have that level of autonomy and decency that their body is there is theirs, irrespective of dad or
		
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			mom or whoever, that this is their personal private space, the moment they come to that cognitive
awareness that there's a difference between what people should see and people shouldn't see. And
even my parents shouldn't see that my brothers and sisters shouldn't see that, that that's a place
you should honor and respect. So I'm not going to give you a defined age, but it is a certain point
in time where you will see your son, your daughter will say don't come in Mom, don't come in dad,
and then you know that this is you know, they're ready for that. Thank you for watching. Please
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