Fostering a Child Personality

In the developing personality of children parents should understand the impulses and needs of children both psychologically and physically and can apply it in everyday life so that the target of raising children will be achieved as desired.

According Zakiah Daradjat, parents are the first private builder in the lives of children. Parental personality, attitude and way of life they are elements that are not directly education, which by itself would go into a private children who are growing it.

In line with the above opinion, Abu Ahmad said that parents have a role is first and foremost for their children to bring children to maturity, then parents should set a good example because children like to imitate their parents.

The existence of parents as first educators of primary and in laid the foundations of education for children by Abdullah Nasih Ulwan is:

"The first and last in charge of educating children with faith and morals, shaping it with a maturity of intellectual and physical balance and psychological well as pointing to the beneficial ownership of science and its cultural variety is the parent".

The primary duty of parents as educators in the family according to Abd al-Nahlawi there are two, namely:

1) Familiarize children to always remember the greatness and the greatness of God by getting them to think or mentafakkuri all God's creation.

2) Appears before the child's attitude of firmness in dealing with various violations of people astray, such as injustice, immoral life, and so forth.