Islamic Religious Education for Children in the Family

Abstract

Family has a very important role in providing religious values ​​education to children. That is through inculcating aqidah values ​​or beliefs in children, fostering children’s worship, embedding moral values ​​in children, fostering children’s personalities and implanting intellectuality in children. Thus, it is hoped that children will be able to grow and develop and be able to face the challenges of an increasingly modern and full of challenges like today, and be able to live their lives as good servants of Allah SWT. Children spend most of the time with the family, therefore the family is the determinant of the child’s future. Likewise, the child’s personality is seen from his social, psychological, physical and religious development which is largely determined by the family. Parents have an obligation to bring their children to become pious children according to their expectations of course and parents are also obliged to give full attention to the development of children. Therefore, children must be provided with sufficient and adequate religious education and this will reach the target more quickly if parents instill it as early as possible. Religious education given from an early age will be more pervasive until the child reaches adulthood and is expected to be a religious foundation and a good guide to life when they hang out in the wider community so that they are not easily influenced by actions that violate religious norms.