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Family as A Source of
Upbringing
Abdimuratov Paraxat Seytmuratovich
Karakalpak State University, Nukus, Uzbekistan
Abstract:
The primary focus of this article is ensuring the
strength of the family, the ability to value a person and
their dignity, the continuation of the human race, as
well as remaining devoted to the teachings of our
ancestors and fostering a well-developed and happy
generation.
Keywords:
Family, dignity, moral, society, state, youth,
education.
Introduction:
In every society, the historical
development process must consider the age and
individual characteristics of the new generation to
gradually and effectively shape its personality.
Pedagogy and psychology serve as the methodological
foundation in this process. The article explores universal
values such as family, child upbringing, and the wise
thoughts of great thinkers. Particular attention is paid to
the vital mission of humanity
—
ensuring generational
continuity, preserving children's health, and fostering
their full development, alongside addressing related
challenges and objectives.
The parental home is the most powerful and sacred
cradle, where a person takes their first steps in life and
becomes a mature individual. Here, the new generation
learns traditional upbringing, unity, and parental
example around a shared table, listens to advice and
wise words. Without textbooks or notes, children grasp
the basics of knowledge, learn to play, count, sing, and
develop qualities like openness, politeness, and respect.
Their feelings, attention, and memory are nurtured, and
the foundations of primary skills and habits are laid.
For humanity, as the world's most magnificent creation,
education and upbringing have always been challenging
yet honorable missions. Parents educate their children
daily, instilling genuine words, attentive glances, and
lullabies into their souls.
Even in times without literacy or visible knowledge,
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humanity practiced moral upbringing, instilling labor
skills, and preparing for life and work
—
a historical
phenomenon. Each nation built its spiritual world
based on unwritten laws, customs, and traditions,
maintaining and applying the ethnopsychological and
ethnopedagogical features of its people despite
historical changes.
From the early days of Uzbekistan's independence,
raising a well-rounded generation based on national
traditions has been a primary focus of the Republic's
policy. As stated in the Constitution of Uzbekistan,
"The family is the basic unit of society and is under the
protection of society and the state." Articles 76 and 77
oblige parents to provide good upbringing for their
children until adulthood, while children capable of
working must care for their parents.
The family is closely connected with social
development, being its most crucial unit. A child is born
and raised within the family. The social atmosphere in
the family significantly influences an individual's
behavior in studies or work.
The law obliges families to raise a healthy generation,
ensure education, develop self-awareness, and foster
a proper understanding of the world.
The state supports families by creating and developing
a wide network of childcare institutions, organizing
and improving household and public catering services,
providing childbirth benefits, offering allowances and
privileges to large families, and other forms of aid. The
great thinker and scholar Rizouddin Ibn Fakhruddin, in
his work "Family," compares the creation of a family to
the creation of a state. He emphasizes the importance
of family laws, vividly highlights the challenges of
upbringing in developing abilities, character, and moral
qualities of individuals. He notes, "No matter how
great a nation is, it cannot survive long without the
family’s educational potential and moral and social
security." Among a state's enduring values, one of the
greatest is not its army of millions of soldiers or
massive ships but the family
—
a treasure we often
overlook. The ideological foundations of the family
influence the development of a society’s political
culture. If an unfavorable climate arises within a
society, its roots are often found in the family, as the
family is the cornerstone of society, and no cultural
community has managed to thrive without it. Laws
regulating marital and family relationships play a
crucial role in strengthening families. It is essential that
marriage laws are correctly enacted, implemented in
practice, and serve the well-being of families.
A family united by high ideals and morals is the reason
for outstanding successes in upbringing. Hence, raising
children based on traditions and family heirlooms
largely depends on the family, as it forms a solid,
spiritually and morally healthy generation. Intra-family
relationships, characterized by mutual care, warmth,
and closeness, have a profound impact on a child’s
moral and aesthetic feelings. Positive family relations
significantly influence a person’s comprehensive
development.
In a family, each child receives an individual approach.
An atmosphere of trust and love among spouses,
parents, and children instills qualities like diligence,
discipline, honesty, thriftiness, kindness, readiness to
help, and empathy. Additionally, instilling diligence in
children by elders not only ensures the material well-
being of the family but also its moral welfare and
strength.
The family is the source of upbringing. From a very
young age, a child learns from adults not only how to
walk, talk, and study but also absorbs a complete system
of moral values and ideals. Family ties play a leading
role, founded on the spouses’ aspirations for
harmonious relationships, unity of
views on life’s main
issues, mutual understanding, respect, and shared
responsibilities. It is fitting to compare parents to artists,
their child to their creation, and the process of
upbringing to art.
Uzbek and Karakalpak families have particularly
distinctive qualities. These qualities have been shaped
over many years, retained their value, and transformed
into traditions. These include love for children, strict
labor distribution, parents’ exclusive management of
the family budget, respect for elders, protecting the
family’s honor and dignity, and a special love for one’s
homeland, which is every individual’s duty.
Upbringing is a very lengthy and complex process that
begins even before the child’s birth. Parents’ health,
mood, social background, worldview, behavior,
compatibility of moral and ethical qualities, and physical
and mental readiness for marriage play a crucial role in
a child’s upbringing.
Society is interested in strong, morally healthy families
because a society’s morality largely depends o
n families,
where the foundations of an individual’s character,
attitude toward work, and moral and ideological values
are formed. Awakening in a child a sense of pride for
their family, ancestors, homeland, people, native
language, religion, and traditions is the primary goal of
family upbringing. The emotional nature of family
upbringing is its unique characteristic. Early childhood
shapes one’s attitude toward the world and people. A
child’s developing relationship with others is primarily
determined by the attitudes of their relatives and close
ones toward them.
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