The Challenges of Muslim Parents in Rearing Digital Native Children

Abstract

Parenting plays an essential role in forming children's character in the family. As the religion of mercy, Islam has principles that Muslim parents can refer to in bringing up their children. In today's changing world, Muslim parents face numerous challenges in childrearing, especially with digital native children -- those who grow up surrounded by technological advancements, particularly the internet, which has become integral to their lives. The current study uses a case study design, which involved four parents as informants to answer question on the challenges from their experience, that they face in raising their digital native children. The study findings show some emerging themes and sub themes of challenges in raising digital native generation faced by Muslim parents, which can be classified into three categories, namely: challenges originating from the responsibility as Muslim parents, challenges from the characteristics of the digital native children, and challenges from the characteristics of the technology and the media.