^ addition: http://www.al-islam.org/modestdress/ Salam. Children not necessarily need to know all the philosophies behind. But a summary should be given to make her proud of it. Do u n ur daughter pray together? If u do then tell her this is the same reason why we do hijab, that is to please Allah. Iman, Wilayat, Namaz, Roza, not to eat haram foods, not to steal.... everything is wajib for us... for the same reason. This shud be made clear. Then there are detail philosophies and explanations of Iman or Imamat or Hijab or Roza etc.... u shud also tell her those explanations. But at first kids shud be prepared like: Allah says to do it..so we must do it. No exception. These r obligatory and we cannot miss these. We ourselves should obey first. Then it leads them automatically to follow the path. We should befriend with religious families. That will make kids friendly about hijab and religion. And dont forget to manage her matching colorful scarfs with dresses and may be that will make her feel ok. Make a hijab-starting party at home with friends and families. And give her hijab gifts. (In iran the schools give a party for all nine yrs old girls where they got gifts of new hijab and accessories of namaz. The kids seems proud to join that special party. They sing special songs together.) You can also write a song for ur daughter or manage a composer who will compose a song for you with these lines: from now on we will also talk to God, we r now all angels.. etc..... or songs like from now on angels are always with us, we r now big kids.... mom gave us special prayer mat and prayer scarf... we have our own tasbih beeds and sijdagah/turba.... we started to follow the best lady Zahra (sa)... or like i am a muslim... my hijab is my identity... my namaz is my identity... I am proud of my muslim name.... etc etc Manage various hijabi kids' pictures and make big posters and hang those in her room. Manage various hijabi cartoon pictures, stickers. Fee Amanillah.