Abstract

The moral degradation of children has recently been found to reflect the quality of upbringing from low-income families. Furthermore, wrong parenting can have an impact on causing understanding in children to be negative, so they tend not to be enthusiastic about pursuing their goals. This incident can also occur as a result of the parenting style applied by his parents not paying attention to moral decay taken from the local culture. The family is the first environment that impacts various elements of children's growth and development, especially their social growth. Procedures and conditions in the family are suitable environments for social children. The purpose of this study is to analyze how the role of Muslim parents of the Minahasa Tribe, Manado, in educating children's morals in Islamic minority communities with a local cultural approach. The research method uses phenomenological study methods with a qualitative approach. Based on the results of the study, researchers found that local culture-based moral education in the formation of children's character/morals in the Tomohon area, Minahasa became one of the concerns of more than the government and even the community and parents to be able to maintain and preserve a valuable character education process from ancient times so that the current generation can understand the value of manners, mutual respect, respect for parents is critical to forming attitudes and moral. Moral education based on local cultural values in the formation of children's character/morals in Tomohon, Minahasa has a very drastic value from parents past and present to educate their children. This is what makes children open to each other by considering parents as friends in discussing problems in the family.

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