**2.1 Exemplary**

Exemplary is the main tool in educating, because the role of parents or family is very strategic in determining the diversity of their children. Parents are required to provide role models for their children. Because parents need to develop role models from an early age, remembering that in each child will grow a certain attitude towards religion, in accordance with the attitudes of their respective parents. The exemplary method is a method used to educate by giving examples of good behavior in everyday life, so that children in the family can imitate them [14]. These examples can be from the parents concerned and can also be from the examples exemplified by the Prophet Muhammad and the Prophet's companions, as well as the examples of prominent figures.

This exemplary method is very important for children, so that they can imitate and identify with others. Therefore, good role models from both parents or the environment greatly affect the child's personality [15]. If the role model from parents is good, then it is likely that the behavior produced by the child is also good, and vice versa.

From the explanation above, it states that we must do the following points [16]:


A father is not enough just to have good Islamic insight to direct his children. Parents also cannot just order their children to realize what they have been ordered to do. To be a direct role model, parents must have an attitude or character that is *uswatun hasanah*. Among them are parents who have *uswatun hasanah* characteristics, namely being honest, trustworthy, having noble character, being brave, not immoral, and so on.

In the process of child development, there is a phase known as the imitation phase. In this phase, a child always imitates and imitates the adults around him, especially his parents or teachers. This exemplary method is very suitable to be applied in this phase. In educating, educators (parents and teachers) are not enough just to give advice in the sense of ordering, but should set an example, for example sending children to the mosque, while he has never been to the mosque. The absence of words and actions, makes parents or teachers not have authority as educators, and makes children confused, because what they see does not match what they hear so that children cannot obey their parents or teachers.
