Teaching Good Characters To Children From An Early Age, Why Is It Important?

YOGYAKARTA - Character education is important to give to children even from an early age. As the name suggests, character education plays a role in shaping the personality and character of children to adulthood.

The importance of early childhood character education also determines how later the child can show the superior character that has been built since he was a child.

Character education is the result of understanding the relationships experienced by humans, namely relationships with themselves, with their environment, and with their God. This relationship will provide an understanding that will shape the values and beliefs of children.

These values and beliefs will finally determine how children will treat the world they will live in. If the values and beliefs obtained are negative, then negative behavior will also be displayed.

Please note, Article 28 of the National Education System Law No.20/2003 paragraph 1 states that early age is from 0 to 6 years. However, there are also those who argue that early age is the age of 0 to 8 years.

Early childhood is the golden age. At that time, children will be very easy to absorb the lessons given to them. Children will easily imitate, imitate, identify anything they are taught to do.

At an early age, children's brain growth is also very fast so that the absorption of information and the ability to imitate a person's behavior will be very fast. Because of this condition, early childhood age is called golden age. At that age, parents need to teach basic things that will help them later, including teaching good children's character.

Reporting from the website of Kemenkopmk.go.id, Deputy for Coordination of Child Quality Improvement, Women and Youth of the Coordinating Ministry for Human Development and Culture, Woro Srihastuti Sulistyaningrum, explained further regarding children's character education.

He explained that children's character education in Indonesia is based on nine pillars of basic character. The nine pillars become the foundation of children's character education. The nine children's character education are as follows.

Children's character education must apply an adapted method based on the times. This method is given either by parents, educators, or those closest to children in the social environment. With the participation of parents and those closest to children, character education can be accepted more quickly by children.

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