The role of the family remains the most important and influential among all institutions that contribute to building the child’s personality and upbringing. The child acquires many characteristics, natures, and behavior from the family, from which his personality is crystallized, and because of them, he may also become deviant.

However, many parents themselves need reform and treatment, and if neglecting this reform is a reason for the emergence of many cases of corruption and deviation. Raising children actually requires serious and solid methods, otherwise the educator will inevitably fail in his mission. Religious institutions must also strive to strengthen this entity and do everything in their power to direct and guide it.

Children's imitation:

There is a state of imitation in the child, as he seeks to be like others, especially those he loves, and so he imitates with great skill.

He is looking for a model to imitate. This model he usually chooses from among the people who attract his interest or those around him and learns some things from them.

In the first days of his life, the child learns from his father and mother, and is interested in and practices what he sees of their actions. He laughs like them, talks in their way, and cries in their way. It was common for the daughter to be taken from the mother and the son from the father, and on this basis, good and bad behavior were a lesson for him, and it was as if he was taking a picture of himself from him.

Importance of family:

As previously mentioned, the family is important for the child in that it can provide him and push him toward perfection or stand in the way of his integration and happiness. Just as the media has an effect on people, working to purify them at times and at other times pushing them to embark on the path of corruption, the father and mother have a role in their own right in this field. .

The child proceeds his life's journey in incomplete and weak steps, and he cannot be successful in his work unless he learns from others the way of life, transcendence and sophistication, knowing that his parents are among his most important sources of information. If honesty and nobility are not present in the family and if corruption and vice prevail, then there will be no possibility of building in the family. Child.

A child cannot learn sincerity, honesty, and honor except through virtue and good deeds that come from the family... The serious and affectionate tone given by the parents to the child is influential, as it gives him a feeling of familiarity and self-confidence and teaches him human behavior characterized by honesty and nobility.

What does a child learn at home?

The child sees the light of life even though he does not know anything, and everything he learns in childhood comes from the family... he learns from the father, mother, and the rest of the family members many issues such as etiquette, customs, laws, orders, general information, education, speaking, and...

In fact, parents open the windows of the child’s thought, mind, and feelings to the outside world and teach him what is in the world, how to speak, how to solve his problems, and what position he should take regarding the issues that confront him.

Parents teach the child through word and deed what is good and what is bad, what work he should do or what he should avoid. They guide him to what is right and what is wrong and to the path of knowing Allah Almighty, what is the truth of friendship, and how to call for patience, endurance, forgiveness, altruism, piety, and purity. In return, the child accepts all of this and obeys their orders out of his love for them and to gain their approval.

What is important at the educational level, especially within the framework of the process of rehabilitating children, is that they learn what is good and avoid what leads to learning abnormal behavior and instructions that lead to their deviation and departure from the path of righteousness.