Sometimes a shift happens in the world that is so quiet, so gradual, and so deceptively convenient that we only recognise its weight once it begins shaping our thinking, our behaviour, and our children. Artificial Intelligence is one of those shifts. People frame it as progress. As empowerment. As a great equaliser. As the moment…
Category: Parenting
The Pharmacy Within: Teaching My Kids That the Mind and Body Are Connected
I just came down with the flu the first time in almost a year. It hit me right after dealing with a painful boil, and I can’t help but think the boil weakened my immune system. It reminded me of something I’ve been trying to teach my kids: the body is always listening to the…
Teaching My Daughter with an LLM We’re Building Together (And the High-Level Problem We Solved)
I’ve always believed the best way to learn something is to build it. So I decided to teach my eldest daughter, Khawlah, Python not with textbooks or tutorials, but by building something real together: a personalized large language model. It’s not a toy. We’re building a fully functional private LLM system with FastAPI, Supabase for…
Justice Even When It’s Hard: The Quiet Strength of Standing Firm
“O you who have believed, be persistently standing firm for Allah, witnesses in justice, and do not let the hatred of a people prevent you from being just.” Qur’an 5:8 There’s a powerful moment in parenting that tests you. It’s not when your kids misbehave. It’s not when they throw a tantrum or ignore your…
Not Everyone Was Made to Be the Same — And That’s the Point
It Starts at Home: Watching My Kids Grow Differently I live in a home full of personalities. Six kids. One roof. One father. One mother. Same meals. Same Quran lessons. Same bedtime (theoretically). But still, six completely different souls. One of my daughters is soft-spoken and observant. Another is boisterous and loves taking charge. One…
Teaching Machine Learning to My 11-Year-Old
The other night, while setting up a Docker container and trying to explain vector embeddings to my 11-year-old daughter, I paused mid-sentence and smiled. Not because she got it (which she kind of did), but because I realized this is the kind of moment I dreamed of: learning, teaching, struggling, and sharing the journey of…
Raising Core Skills for 2030 (One Bedtime Story at a Time)
The other night, as I tucked Khawlah and Thauban into bed, Khawlah asked me a question that made me pause:“Papa, when we’re big, what kind of work will we do?” It’s a simple question, but beneath it lies the real challenge of parenting today:We’re raising children not just for 2030 — we’re raising them for…
The Night My Kids Met the Librarian Robots
It started like most evenings in our home a bit of noise, a lot of laughter, and that post-supper chaos where everyone has something very important to say right before bedtime. Khawlah, our oldest, had just finished brushing her teeth when she caught me near the doorway. “Papa,” she asked, “how do those smart robots…