Peningkatan Kompetensi Orang Tua dalam Mendampingi Anak dalam Mengakses Gadget

Abstract

Gadgets is be a device that couldn't be separated of life, even on child preschool. Preschool children, is the Alpha generation that has been born with technology. As device other technology, gadgets have benefit also have a negative impact. The use of gadgets that are not monitored, can bring have an adverse impact on child development. The role of parents in accompanying child while using gadget to be a very important. Unfortunately, still have constraints parents as the understanding on children development preschool, the impact of positive and negative gadgets, and the limited skill of parents to apply the rules of consistent related to the use of gadgets. This problem needs to be overcome that parents can serve optimal and gadgets used capable of supported the development of knowledge children. Therefore, counseling about assistance gadgets for the preschools children to be done. The counseling participants consisted of parents of Baithul Athfal Aisyiah Trangsan 01, teachers, and administrators of Aisyiyah Ranting Trangsan. The method used in this counseling is lectures and group discussion.The effectiveness of psychoeducation is revealed from questionnaires filled out by the participants, before and after counseling. Based on the analysis of data using wilcoxon signed rank test, z=-3,134 with p= 0,002 (p & 0,05), lt is means there were very significant differences between parents knowledge before and after counseling. Qualitatively, the majority of mother feel worried when he played gadgets; mother hope the child can reduce his habit of playing gadgets and use them to the extent of learning facilities; what the majority of mothers do is provide time limits, types of viewing, and try to assist children when playing gadgets.