GUIDELINE FOR MUSLIM PARENTS:

ACCOUNTABILITY
A common mistake parents make is to teach their kids to be accountable to them, rather than to be accountable to Allah first and foremost. If you teach your children that you are primarily accountable to Allah, they know that Allah and His recording angels see and record all that they do even when you’re not around to see what they are doing.

To achieve this teach your children using relevant concepts and principles from the Quran and Hadith. Some examples are:

“Serve Allah as you would if you could see Him; although you cannot see Him, He can see you.” (Muslim)

“Fear Allah wherever you are, and follow up a bad deed with a good one and it will wipe it out, and behave well towards people.” (Tirmidhi)