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emotionally. Therefore they are called natural

education and become the main education.
In the family, parents provide education

and direct knowledge to their children in the

form of examples, examples and dialogues. In
the family, children also recognize the values of

good and bad, wrong and right, and social
knowledge and experience.

A child really has high trust and respect
for his parents, so parents are the main people he

must respect. In the custom it says:

Nan tuo is respected,
nan butt loved,

samo gadang baok bakawan,
mother bapo labiah once. 133

The respect given to parents is more
important than anything else. Parents, both

mother and father, are very important, but

Minang custom gives privileges to mothers as

133 Idrus Hakimy, Mustika Series, p. 29, which means: The elder is
respected, the little one is loved, the same brings friends, mother and father are
more important.