معرفت

One of the important duties of parents is to educate their children from childhood. One aspect of this education is sexuality education. Preserving and strengthening modesty (haya) during childhood plays a direct role in preventing moral deviancy in youth. Using the descriptive-analytical method, relying on library resources and utilizing verses and narrations from the perspective of both Islamic schools of thought (Fariqain), we have endeavored to examine the strategies for preserving and strengthening modesty in children. The results of the research indicate that making the child aware of God's supervision over their actions and behavior, parental groundwork for observing hijab, encouraging the lowering the gaze (ghadd al-basar) and not seeing forbidden scenes from childhood, and other pre-pubescent teachings such as seeking permission to enter the private spaces of parents and others are among the Quranic strategies for preserving and strengthening modesty in children. Also, according to narrations from both schools of thought, concealing marital relations from child’s sight, separating child's bed, keeping the child away from any stimulating factors, and avoiding seclusion with the opposite gender are narrative strategies for preserving modesty in children.