Raising teenage children of Thai Muslim families

Abstract

This article aims to study the raising of teenage children of Thai Muslim families. It is a study of descriptive and analytical documents. The study resulted in finding that guidelines for raising teenage children are as follows: 1) Be a good role model for your children; 2) Promote good things, and warn and prohibit bad things with fear and sincerity towards Allah; 3) Raise children with love, kindness and gentleness; 4) Be fair to all children and have a good attitude in raising them; 5) Encourage your children to study useful subjects, namely, religious knowledge, arts and sciences; 6) Always pray (du'a) to Allah to keep your children on the right path, the straight path, and protect them; 7) Be an advisor to your children, give advice on maintaining friendship and properly positioning in society; and 8) Give advice to your children on selecting spouse. And the results of the study also found that there are guidelines for promoting children's health as follows: 1) Promoting physical health; 2) Promoting mental and emotional health; 3) Promoting social health; and 4) Promoting intellectual health, ethics and spirituality. Therefore, parents must adapt to the changes in order to be able to lead teenage children to achieve the goals of raising them based on Islamic principles as follows; (1) to create human beings who have the spirit of being loyal to and fearing Allah, (2) to create good people with morality and ethics in their hearts, and concentration on leading their life within the framework of a good way of life based on the teachings and ideology of Islam, (3) to achieve holistic development in human identity including physical, spiritual, and intellectual spheres, and (4) to create sustainable success for human beings in this world and the hereafter.