How To Teach Good Manners

The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘Teach your children to pray when they reach the age of seven, and coerce them to perform it when they reach the age of ten. And make them sleep in separate beds.

The Prophet (SAWA) said, ‘A child is a master for seven years, a slave for the next seven years, and a minister for another seven years. By the age of twenty one, you must either approve of his manners or cut him loose, for [by then] you would have fulfilled your obligation toward Allah, most High.

Imam al-Sadiq (AS) said, ‘A child should be trained to fast between the ages of fifteen and sixteen.