Understanding and Adaptation of Parenting Styles Applied By Parents in the Digital Era (Study on Bugis Families Working in Bone Regency, Indonesia)

Abstract

In addition to adapting with ease in the digital era, parents must be able to understand and adapt to their conditions as workers. This research aims to find out how working parents adapt to developments in the digital era and to analyze the role of the extended family environment. This research was conducted in China District, Bone Regency using a qualitative descriptive research method with a case study approach. Data collection was carried out through observation, documentation, in-depth interviews. The informants are parents who work and have children aged 1-6 years. The results of research on the use of digital technology can be applied in parenting, considering that the child can learn a lot of learning features and monitoring media for working parents. even so, at the age of a child who is still under 2 years old, it is recommended not to be allowed even though the extended family environment is also easy to provide access for the child to use a mobile phone. In general, the pattern of parenting in Bugis families tends to apply 3 types of parenting, namely Authoritative (2) Authoritarian and (3) Permissive. Along with today's digital developments, with various kinds of technological sophistication, the type of parenting style of working parents to their children has also changed. The use of digital technology can still be applied according to the age of the child and with time limits for using digital technology.