Abstract
Bullying behaviour can have a negative impact on a child's physical and psychological health. Bullying in the classroom is a challenge for early-childhood educators. Preschool is the first place outside the home where children face social challenges when interacting with their classmates. Child-Friendly Class is the first step and part of the Children Friendly School (CSF) as a UNICEF program and an important Indonesian government policy to prevent the emergence of child bullying behaviour. This study aims to identify needs in the process of developing a Child-Friendly Classroom Management model to anticipate bullying behaviour. This research and development method uses an adaptation of the Rowntree model which includes three stages of the process and data collection techniques using interviews, questionnaires, and observation. The results of this study indicate that the preparation of an effective classroom management guidebook to create child-friendly classes needs to be followed up immediately. Several findings related to teachers' perceptions of classroom management, and child-friendly classes prove that child-friendly classes have not been implemented properly in PAUD institutions, with bullying behaviour still appearing in early childhood in PAUD institutions. PAUD teachers understand that it is important to implement classroom management but so far there has been no manual on how to manage effective classrooms as well as training related to the implementation of effective classroom management. The creation of child-friendly classes is believed to be able to help teachers suppress the emergence of bullying behaviour in early childhood.
 Keywords: Child-Friendly Classroom Management, Bullying Prevention, Early Childhood Education
Highlights
Children may have started to be aggressive than their peers at an early age Peer violence is more common in pre-schoolers and kindergarten than in other age groups, according to research by Kirves and Sajaniemi (2012)
All ECE teachers agree that Effective Classroom Management Guidelines are important for creating Child
Based on the concepts that have been described in the theoretical study and field study, the researchers compiled a product concept formulation for the teacher's guide for Child Friendly Classroom Management as shown in the following chart
Summary
Children may have started to be aggressive than their peers at an early age (from the age of twelve months) Peer violence is more common in pre-schoolers (ages three to five years) and kindergarten than in other age groups, according to research by Kirves and Sajaniemi (2012). Aggressive behaviour such as bullying and peer victimization have been observed in four-yearold children in many countries (Monks et al, 2005). Many studies believe bullying to be a group phenomenon in which the group's passive acceptance of harmful behaviour has a major impact on the persistence of bullying (Sainio et al, 2011)
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