The Roles of Parent and Teacher on Children Attitude Development to Avoid Bullying Behavior in Early Childhood

Putu Eka Sastrika Ayu

doi:10.25078/yb.v1i1.1374

Abstract

<p>Family takes important influences on the education of children's moral and personality development. Families especially parents are the main agencies to teach children new things as well as goodness or badness. Early family education should include three aspects namely cognitive, affective and psychomotor aspects. In early family education, parents should impart honest behaving, polite speaking, and responsibility-taking. In this early family education, educational interaction occurs firstly and foremost to the children who would become the foundation of their further education. Cultivating children's attitudes should be carried out by school teachers. There are several roles that can be implemented by the teacher namely; as a model, mentor, coach, motivational speaker, and evaluator. The role of teachers as educators (nurturer) are the roles that are associated with the duties of assistance and encouragement (supporter), the tasks of supervision and coaching (supervisor) as well as tasks related to disciplining children the child was being well behaved against the school rules and norms of life in the family and society. By optimizing the role of parents and teachers in the cultivation of the attitude, then it will be able to reduce bullying behavior in early childhood. The children's experiences with bullying will give long term impacts. For the children having bullying victims, the experience will be a nightmare that never disappears from their memories. </p>

Highlights

There are three cores in educational environments, namely (1) family, (2) school, and (3) community, in which the three environments can not separate one into other ones
Family, as one of the three educational environments cores, is a place of the first and foremost education. This first education can be viewed as a foundation of the further subsequent developments, educators need to act carefully, if it is not, the impact could give less good on further children's subsequent developments
In the Republic of Indonesia Acts Number 20 of the year 2003 on the National Education System, article 7 paragraph 1 stated that "parents participate in selecting a unit of education and obtain information about the development of his child"

Summary

INTRODUCTION

There are three cores in educational environments, namely (1) family, (2) school, and (3) community, in which the three environments can not separate one into other ones. The role of parents in early childhood education is not implemented It can be seen from the data based on the year 2006 that the National Children Commission reported the children violence victims including 1,124 485 sexual and physical violence as well as 433 106 psychic acts of violence. The cultivation of the attitude in early childhood education has a very important role in building the children's character early on through conditioning and example. Planting this attitude becomes a top priority compared with the development of knowledge and skills. This article will discuss more broadly about the role of parents in the cultivation of the attitude to avoid bullying behavior in early childhood

DISCUSSION

The Role of Parents in Cultivating Children Attitude

Findings

The Role of Teachers in Cultivating Children Attitude

CONCLUSION