KEPEDULIAN IBU PADA ANAK TERHADAP PERKEMBANGAN EMOSI ANAK USIA DINI DI DAERAH HILIR ENERGI

Abstract

Objective of this research is to understand child’s (4 years old, boy) emotional development through interviewing his mother. She was interviewed on several aspects i.e. (1) her aim to send her son to the PAUD (early child development) school in Rewulu, Yogyakarta, (2) preparation before going to school, (3) giving attention after school. This research was interesting since research location was conducted in Rewulu Yogyakarta, a village near a downstream area of energy. This area was chosen since children lived in mining areas usually were exposed with air and water pollution. Children had to eat contaminated foods. Therefore, most of children had low health status. In the middle of this awful environment situation, children’s emotional development was disturbed easily. Parent especially mother was able to lessen this dreadful situation through providing healthy food and other superior attentions. This research revealed that subject was unable to provide excellent attention toward her son since she was pretty busy with her hectic working schedule. Her minimal attention was also seen from numerous events i.e. picking up her son belatedly after school, delegating the completing homework task toward her first daughter instead of herself, providing low quality packed meal, and unable to manage her son to take a bath and having breakfast properly. She was likely to depend more on the school’s facility instead of independently accomplish in fulfilling her son’s needs. Some recommendations were addressed to the PAUD’s teacher to build parenting awareness among parents. Research limitation was about unknowing father’s roles in upbringing children.