Keluarga Harmonis berdasarkan Kolose 3:18-21 dan Pengaruhnya terhadap Etika Pergaulan Anak

Abstrak

The various problems related to children character and behavior are emerging in manydiscourses. Bullying, group fighting, moral violance, and crime are often involved children whether as the performers or victims. This phenomenon can not be separated to the existance of the family as the very first “school” for the childen. This research is conducted to see the corelation between the family congruity according to Colossians 3:18-24 and children’s social intercourse ethics. This research involved fith grade 50 students of Christian Elementary School of Kalam Kudus in Yogyakarta as the sample. The research found that there is a strong correlation between the family harmony and student’s social intercourse ethics. The parent’s example in managing relation between the family membersis a strong factor in shaping children’s social intercourse ethics, due to the fact that the children are good imitator.