ABSTRACT
This article discusses the development of childhood history in Indonesian historiography, through an alternative source. Ethical guidelines especially designed for young moslem pupils in the early 1950s was a unique narration to delve into family and childhood history. While the nature of conventional history rarely provides a place for children's historical narratives, a work of national figures of that time, this work encapsulates some of the children's daily lives. Furthermore, as an ethical guide, this work also instills plural attitudes in a newly independent country, namely nationalism, as well as obedience to God.
