Education of Child’s Character Development
Basically, the basic task of a child's development is developing a true understanding of how the world works. In other words, the main task of a child in the development is learning “game rules” of all aspects that exist in this world. Children also should learn to understand the rules of social relationships, so that there are laws and penalties that govern the behavior of community members in social life.
According to Garbarino & Brofenbrenner (in Vasta, 1992), if a nation wants to survive, the nation should have rules that determine what is wrong and what is right, what is allowed and what should not be done, what is fair and what is unfair, what is appropriate and inappropriate. Therefore, it needs ethics in speech, rules in traffic, and other social rules.
Understanding "game rules" in the world life and internalizing in ourselves, so as be able to apply "rules of the game" in daily life as well as possible is the duty of every child in the development. The habit of throwing garbage in its place, queuing, not harming or hurting others, and other behaviors that indicate good understandings of social rules are the results of budbahasa and mental quality developments of a person called character.
Of course, a good or bad habit in a person - which indicates the quality of the character, does not happen by itself. It has been mentioned that beside nature factor, nurture factor is also influential. In other words, the process of socialization or education done by family, school and the wider environment plays an important role, perhaps even more important, in the formation of a person's character.
According to Megawangi (2003), children will grow into characterized personals if they can grow in characterized environment, so that the nature of every holy child born can develop optimally. Considering the child's environment is not only a family environment that is micro, all the family, school, mass media, and so on contribute to the development of children's character. In other words, developing the next generation with good character is the responsibility of all parties. Keep in mind that human beings are not naturally (spontaneously) to grow into a man with good character.
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