the role of parents in educating children

The role of parents is also important in the development of language and thinking skills of young children. Early childhood are able to master more words and have a great desire to understand everything. Therefore during this period, the child will become more critical so that children will ask many questions. Children also been able to learn to count, to be more active storytelling, and like to imagine. Parents can support children through the provision of stimulation to perform many activities, such as singing, storytelling, and teach the alphabet or numbers. Activities - these activities would be increasingly supporting the development of the child.

Mothers typically have more influence and opportunities to support the development of the child. This is because the main role of the father to make a living cause he had time for children to become more limited. Therefore, the role of the mother is very important to maintain the quality of child-parent interaction. Almost most of the decisions relating to the affairs of many households made by the mother. However, at an early age, children usually know a father figure as a figure who would invite them to go to places of fun and friends to play, but this role will be performed by the mother, if the father is absent due to work. Recognizing the availability of a very limited time with children, fathers are usually still trying to make time for his son. This can be done in the form of father would call taking the kids just to say hello when she was in office. At home, dad will also talk and play with his son. Those things are done in an effort to keep a close relationship between father and child.

Another way to get around the availability of parent-child time, around the activity of busy parents and children work inside and outside the school, the family can hold a 'Family Day' to gather together. For families residing in large cities, usually spend time in a mall, restaurant, café, cinema, or doing household chores together. 'Family Day' is a showcase for family members to share, discuss, each devoting opinion, catch up on the limited interaction. Because spent a long time, usually 'Family Day' is done on Saturdays or Sundays, when family members are not busy or tired.

In addition to hold a Family Day, there are many things you can do to maintain the parent child relationship in order to optimize support for the development of the child's parents. Here are some other tips that can be done

Creating a 'rule' to perform joint activities to be executed by the entire family. It may be necessary to do the breakfast / dinner together, prayer / pray together in the morning or late afternoon.
For parents, as much as possible done face to face with his son. After the home office to meet and ask children to tell about their activities (school, tutoring). If you must get a job out of town, parents should call or SMS to ask the news every day.
For children, it can be to say hello to the parents before leaving home or just got home.
The explanation given above is expected to provide an overview the important role of parents in early childhood growth and development and examples of efforts that can be done to maintain the parent-child interaction, so that parents (even though the working conditions), can provide optimal support for children's development. Family interaction as a whole, will create a warm and loving way that supports growth and learning in early childhood.

Sources:

Dr. Seto Mulyadi, Psi, MSi