Repetition is the mother of knowledge, according to the Western expression. That is, repetition or habituation is the parent of knowledge or knowledge and skills.
More operationally delivered by Zig Ziglar, "Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment."
So do not be surprised if in the world of education the term Early Childhood Education (PAUD) is known. In fact, in Islam, education starts when a mother is positive.
Children who from the womb are familiar with the behavior of both their mother and father, tend to be easy to understand what is good and do it. Including when accustomed to listening to the recitation of the Koran, it will tend to easily memorize the Qur'an in each phase of its growth.
For this reason, it is important for every parent to condition their baby in education with a consistent habituation dimension.
Daughters for example, have to be accustomed to being educated from small children using the hijab. Such habituation will make it easier for the girl herself to understand and practice the Shari'a to close the genitals.
Including the problem of eye health. Children who from childhood are used to seeing their parents' gadgets even in the hours of each day, not long before entering elementary school, the child already needs glasses. Why, habit, answer.
No wonder there is an expression that man will reap what is his habit.
Children who are accustomed to listening to the Qur'an will be encouraged to recite verses from the Qur'an. Children who are accustomed to listening to songs, it will be easy to be able to sing, and children who are accustomed to watching violent scenes in the film also have the potential to be very aggressive in hitting their friends.
Now, when we see a woman easily leaving home without a headscarf, it is almost certain that because of her childhood she was not used to wearing the hijab, plus when she was an adult, she still did not understand the concept of wearing a hijab.
Thus, positive habits must be sought. Remember, habits can build and determine the future. Successful people and people fail, determined by habits.
Therefore it is important we understand why prayer must be five times in 24 hours throughout life, and why dhikr should be practiced as much as possible. Reading the Qur'an must be repeated, even memorized and read in various places and activities. Its meaning is habituation.
Imam Ghazali in Ihya 'Ulumuddin said, "Someone who is accustomed to doing good and teaching it, surely if it develops it will bring pleasure in the world and in the hereafter. if he gets used to doing bad, and he humbles himself like an animal's behavior, then he will suffer and be destroyed. "
And, because children are the most skilled imitators in life, the good habits that are instilled in the baby must be accompanied by habituation in the form of exemplary from both parents. It is impossible for the child to be diligent in reading the Koran, if his parents do not provide exemplary reading of the Koran in a steady manner.
limit yourself from seeing television shows, if both parents are really very fond of watching soap operas.
As in the case of prayers, the Messenger of Allaah ‘Alaihi Wassalam said," Have your children pray when they are seven years old. Hit them if they leave prayer when they are ten years old ”(Narrated by Bukhari Muslim).
The above hadith gives a clue that the longest period in terms of habituating children to do good is three years. Concretely in terms of establishing prayer.
If the child has been accustomed to the general 7-year prayer well and runs smoothly, then the age of 10 years will be accustomed to automatic alias doing it. But if it is still not automatic, then something is wrong and because it needs to be evaluated, it is not then that the child is immediately beaten because he understands the hadith text partially.
This condition may indicate that parents need to understand whether the baby can be invited to think or not.
If it's time, then it's time for them to get the next stage of education, which is about the meaning, motivation, reason, function and benefits of a worship or good habits, so that they become aware of the baby then moved by themselves to practice or get used to all the goodness in Islam and life. God knows well.