Shaping Moral Knowledge In Children

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A parent's relationship with a child should be a sweet, beautiful and fun relationship, something that can be made with a chest feeling relief and a smile on his lips as he remembers. Relationships that should be pleasing to both parties, both parents and children. Because the relationship of parents and children is a relationship of affection, the relationship is not limited.

Will it be the opposite of that? Relationship, then interpreted as a 'problem' parents and children. Is a relationship that likes to headache more often, adds parents, can not help because of inability to work around it. The hardest thing about facing children is, as if parents are confronted with themselves, because children are simply mirrors of parents. With all the big questions in the minds of every parent, will they succeed in educating children? What is the result of their upbringing later? Especially when thinking about moral education for children, like what is best? True indeed, there was never a special school for to educate people to be parents.

Everyone must learn by being in the middle (experiencing parenthood), with a little added provision of experience given by parents first. Therefore it is appropriate if every parent is always alert to learn, learn, and learn to become a better parent. ^[1]

Moral (Latin Morality) is a human term referring to humans or others in actions that have positive values. Man who has no moral called amoral means he is immoral and has no positive value in the eyes of other human beings. So moral is the absolute thing that must be possessed by humans. Moral is explicitly matters relating to the process of socialization of individuals without human morals can not conduct the process of socialization. Morals today have implicit value because many people have moral or immoral attitudes from a narrow point of view. Moral is the nature that is taught in schools and man must have moral if he wants to be respected by his neighbor.

Moral is the absolute value in the life of society as a whole. Moral judgment is measured from the culture of the local community.Moral is the act / behavior / speech of a person in interacting with humans. if a person is doing it in accordance with the values ​​of taste prevailing in the community and acceptable and pleasant environment of the community, then the person is judged to have good moral, and vice versa.Moral is a product of culture and Religion. Each culture has different moral standards according to the prevailing value system and has been established for a long time. ^[2]

Moral knowledge is the base of our humanity. To create good morale for children is to create harmonious communication between parent and child, because it will be an important capital in shaping morals. Mostly when the child is a teenager or an adult, he does not remember moral teachings because there is no dialogical communication space between himself and his parents as the "first teacher" who should continue to provide moral teaching.

So, the most important point in shaping the moral of the child is the environment around the house, after which the school environment and the last is the neighborhood community. However, when the home environment is not comfortable, usually children will rebel outside the house (if not in school, definitely in the community). Therefore, in order not to happen such things are required parents to foster good communication interaction with the baby so that in the future when they have problems will ask for a way out to his parents. ^[3]

How to instill moral in children?

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Some things that need to be considered parents for children to grow and develop with a strong moral value:

Teach mutual respect

Mutual respect for each other is one of the moral lessons / education that needs to be taught to children from an early age. Teach children to have an attitude of respect for each difference and explain to children that mutual respect is a commendable attitude and that difference is a wonderful thing because everyone has different ways of achieving goals and living life. Such moral values ​​are important to teach children to adapt when they are in the social environment.

Teaches honesty and do not lie

Seeing the phenomenon of today, it's hard to find people who have honest nature. The underlying factor that causes a person to lie is a habit at a small time so that it is carried to adulthood. It is therefore very important to teach and apply the habit of being honest with children from an early age. Parents should explain to children that being honest is very important and includes a commendable attitude that will bring happiness to life. In addition, give the child an explanation that lying is just beautiful at the beginning and will bring suffering throughout life. Any small lie will still bring a great impact for life.

Teaches humility and helps others

The next moral values ​​that are important to teach children are mutual help and humility. In order for children to easily understand, you are required to not only member explanation orally only. But it would be better if you give examples that can be seen directly by the child like helping others who are in distress.

This will certainly inspire children to follow your good habits. Children at an early age tend to be easy to imitate every deed he sees, be it good or bad deeds. Therefore, the role of parents is needed to lead the child to a better path since early uisa. Good behaviors and habits taught in children will be carried into adulthood.

Teaches a responsible attitude toward what has been done

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Moral lessons related to responsibility are important for children. Teach children to always apologize when they make mistakes against others. Explain to children that apology is a form of responsibility for a mistake that has been made. This moral value will form the person of a child who has a humble nature and willing to admit his own mistakes.

Teaching loving attitude Mutual love is one of the attitudes to create brotherhood among fellow human beings. Teach children that hurting others is a wrong attitude and will have a negative impact. Children should be given an understanding that hurting others is not only an act, but it can also come from words. ^[4]

In addition, a child's moral development is strongly influenced by the environment in which he lives. Without society (the environment), the personality of an individual can not develop; the moral values ​​that a child possesses are something that the child acquires from the outside. Children learn and be taught by their environment about how that is said wrong or not good.

This environment means parents, brothers, friends, teachers and so on. In the first years of a child's life, entirely dependent on others, his parents, this is where the importance of the parent's role as the first person the child knows in his life to develop his child's moral life.

Children will mainly learn from their parents how to behave towards others, what behaviors are good to do or which should be avoided. But it does not mean that if a child shows an unscrupulous behavior, it is because of his parents. Individual and other environmental factors around the child's life can also influence the development of the behavior. It can be argued that parents are not the only decisive factor for a child's moral development, but parents can direct the moral development of the child as far as possible, recognizing his or her great role in the child's life. ^[5]

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Article Source

^[1] : ^{https://paudfip.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/menanamkan-moral-kepada-anak-usia-dini/
[2]} : ^{https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral
[3]} : ^{https://abdiplizz.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/perkembangan-moral/
[4]} : ^{http://www.solusisehatku.com/nilai-moral-yang-penting-untuk-diajarkan-pada-anak-anak-sejak-usia-dini
[5]} : ^{http://barawati.blogspot.co.id/2007/09/perkembangan-aspek-moral-dan-sosial.html}

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