Journal of Islamic Early Childhood Education

Parents' Seven Strategies to Build Children's Social Character since Early

Ria Fransisca, Dwi Wahyuni Az-zahra, Indah Setianingrum — Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The family provides the social and environmental relationships that are important for a child's first learning needs. Parents as the head of the family are called to be educators for children. The family is the first socialization place for children and is tasked with instilling moral and social values. Through interactions within the family, children not only get to know themselves and their parents but also get to know the life of the community and the surrounding environment. Early childhood follows parents from various habits and behaviors, when children interact with other people, it is at this time that meaningful events will occur to shape their personality. By inviting children to participate in social activities, such as staying in touch, mutual cooperation, sharing, greeting, being friendly, working together and playing together, children can have a good relationship with their surroundings. The purpose of this review is to present empirical evidence about strengthening social character in early childhood, stimulation carried out by parents in the family, and parenting in strengthening children's social character.

Finger Painting to Improve Fine Motor Skills of early Age Children

Jeni Tonda Kalamak, Sriyanti Yaku Danga, Nia Rahma Sari — Tue, 31 May 2022 00:00:00 +0000

This study aims to improve children's fine motor skills through finger painting activities in Group B at Rehoboth Christian Kindergarten, Central Sumba. This research is a type of Classroom Action Research with a collaborative method. The subjects of this study were children in Group B 5-6 years. The data collection technique is observation (checklist). The research instrument is an observation sheet. Data analysis techniques using descriptive qualitative and quantitative. This classroom action research was carried out in two cycles. The results of the research show that the fine motor component can be improved using finger painting activities. In the pre-action research action, the children who were said to have completed reached 15.46%, in the first cycle the children who were completed reached 72% and in the second cycle, the children who were completed reached 95% were said to be in very good criteria. So it can be said that the children's fine motor skills after being given treatment increased with finger painting activities.

Parents' Effort to Avoid Bullying among early Age Children

Winda Sherly Utami, Zubaidah Zubaidah, Rahmi Dwi Utami — Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Bullying is a problem that becomes the center of attention in early childhood. To minimize the occurrence of bullying, parents need to participate in handling bullying so that it doesn't happen to children. This research uses the method of literature study or literature study. the data obtained by researchers comes from research results, books, and existing data, then the results and literature are described or reviewed again. Based on a review of literature studies, it shows that parental involvement is very important in dealing with bullying. The important thing that parents need to do in dealing with bullying behavior is to pay attention to children's feelings, invite children to communicate so that children have the courage to say what they want to say. Parents participate in taking action against bullies and encourage children who are more prone to bullying to interact more actively and remind their peers to help them do well.

Developing early Age Children's Fine Motor Skills through Origami

Sandra Putra Efendi, Tiara Mustika, Risna Milawati — Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The world of children is a world of imagination. Children have great curiosity when parents and teachers stimulate children with various skills. Children aged 5-6 years experience significant fine motor development when given interesting stimulation and exercises in class. Teachers experience problems in the art of paper folding to improve fine motor skills in early childhood. Teachers rarely train paper folding skills for early childhood because teachers are not yet skilled in the art of paper folding. The purpose of this community service is to improve children's fine motor skills through training in the art of paper folding. The art of paper folding can train children's fine muscles so that fine motor aspects in early childhood can be trained and improved. Through a pleasant experience for children when folding paper, it is possible to achieve fine motor development tasks in early childhood because learning will be meaningful through fun activities

The Effect of Bullying toward early Age Children's Mental Health

Felayati Felayati, Fatimah Fatimah, Azvi Rahmi, Serpuadi Zeki — Wed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Bullying is an act or behavior that is carried out by means of hurting physically, verbally or emotionally/psychologically by a person or group who feels physically or mentally weaker repeatedly without any resistance with the aim of making the victim suffer. Bullying behavior at Harapan Bunda can create an environment that is less supportive of children's development, both physically and mentally. Bullying behavior that occurred at Harapan Bunda was in the form of physical and non physical/verbal. Bullying arises because of misunderstandings and small problems that have an impact on the mental health of the victim. Bullying must be avoided because it has an impact on the mental health of early childhood. This can be seen from the fact that there are still young children who have had post-traumatic stress since childhood, anxiety, bipolar disorder. experienced by young children. The method used in this research is quantitative with non-random sampling because all populations are used as samples. With a total sample of 23 people. The result was found to be 0.078 or 7.8%. So bullying has a positive effect on mental health. This effect is also strengthened by a significance test of 0.000 less than 0.00.