The Role of Families in Children's Education

Education is one of the most important social controls in society. Academic education will determine a person's intellectual level in his environment and then his expertise will be applied in their respective fields. While character education determines a person's behavior goes according to the prevailing norms in society, namely moral norms, religious norms, legal norms, and decency norms. Although education is the most important is moral education, academic education (in this case is the school) also needs to be considered and implemented optimally, considering that almost everyone has gone through elementary to middle school. Because school students are children and adolescents, therefore they need to get extra attention from various parties, in order to create a conducive and effective education system.

In the modern era like today, everyone is busy working to meet the needs of their families. So, not a few parents actually delegate their children's education responsibilities to the school. In fact, the family is the first and foremost educational medium for a child. Like schools, a family is also a place of learning for children. From birth to adulthood, they will learn and get the education in "family schools" where parents and other family members become teachers. Strengthening the family's role in children's education becomes very important because families can teach things that children don't get at school. Education in this "family school" must be done well and maximally, because childhood is a time to build a strong foundation for building character and sustaining children's knowledge into adulthood.

As stated above, children need extra attention from all parties. The main parties referred to here are government, schools, and families. All parties must carry out their respective roles in order to create a good education system. If the role of government (including schools under the ministry of education and culture) is to design, implement and evaluate the best education curriculum, appoint teachers and improve the quality of teachers, and free education fees. So, what is the role of the family in supporting and strengthening children's education?

Creating a Good Family Environment

Children are very smart in terms of imitating social behavior, they will easily follow whatever is around them. In this case, the family has a big role, because again the family is the closest person and the main environment for children. A harmonious family can provide lessons about responsibility, honesty, independence, discipline and so on. Then what about families that are less harmonious? Divorce is indeed a problem that has many negative effects on children. However, parents are still responsible for educating their children well even if they are involved in a dispute. They still have to pay attention and good examples for their children. Children who are in such complicated conditions do require more extra attention. It also takes assistance from non-core families to "embrace" broken home children. In order to always get the right attention and attention when he loses his parents' attention.

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Control and Manage Children's Learning Time

In the digital era like today, it seems children are more interested in the gadget. They can spend all day just to play games or watch TV. Parents should be able to remind and manage children's learning time. For example, it can be done by arranging the learning time from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., or arranging children's playtime only one to two

hours per day. If both parents work, they can still control and regulate children's learning time via telephone. Taking time to call children from work is not a difficult thing right?

Guiding Children When Home

In addition to reminding children to learn, even when children learn, parents should guide and supervise. Guiding does not mean doing the child's homework completely. Parental guidance is also needed when they play. For example, when children watch TV, we know that many TV programs in Indonesia do not even educate much. We do not stop the TV programs that are not educating, but we can control the shows that children should watch.

Planning Children's Education

Not a few parents are indifferent to their children's education plans. Not a few parents to force their will on education choices for children at a higher level. For example, there are children who want to continue their education in economics, but the child's parents force their children to go to school in medical school. Finally, the child is forced to go to school and not really. In the end, he could not pass the level of higher education well and lead to depression. Therefore, it is recommended that the child's education plan be discussed directly with the child, and directed and guided properly.

Building Good Communication with School Parties

Parents must also provide understanding to school regulations. Because actually, the rules made at school are solely for the good of students. But still, parental supervision is also needed to ensure that school regulations do not deviate. For this reason, good communication is needed between parents and the school. So we can evaluate how children develop at school and at home. Communication that can be built is various, for example attending parents' meetings held by schools, taking reports on learning outcomes directly, asking about children's development in schools, and so on.

We are all aware, we cannot run all of the above roles because of various things. But we can do what we can maximally. The role of parents is the main one, but we as a family: grandfathers, grandmothers, aunts, uncles, brothers, also have an equally important role in improving education, especially character education for our younger siblings or children. For that, let's help Indonesian children get a good education, for the sake of a better Indonesia.

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