THE ROLE OF DIGITAL PARENTING IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF RELIGIOUS AND MORAL VALUES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD

Abstract

Infusing religious roots could shape the characters, morals and personality of children through habituation and examples given by parents. Nowadays, the challenges of parents in assisting children to grow and develop are increasingly tough because of the development rate of information technology. The progress of technology causes many changes that occur in life. This change has had a huge impact on the transformation of existing values ​​in Indonesia. Excessive use without supervision results in negative behavioral effects in early childhood which if left unchecked will affect children's morals. The problem that occurs is that many parents do not know how to accompany their children with their gadgets. The study aimed to describe the role of parents in assisting children in using technology such as gadgets, computers and other devices in developing religious and moral values ​​for pre-school students. This research was conducted using the library research method, which was collecting and reviewing various kinds of literature on the role of digital parenting in developing religious and moral values ​​for early childhood The role of digital parenting is to control, give rules, guide and provide supervision to children in using their gadgets. The role of digital parenting in the development of children's religious and moral values ​​included stimulating children's hearing and vision with the sound of the Al-quran, prayer, religious attitudes and behaviors that were repeated; children will be more honest, responsible for themselves.