Pengembangan Sosial Emosional Antara Orang Tua dan Anak Melalui Kegiatan Menghias Lentera

Abstract

The social emotional development is a useful vehicle in providing guidance to children so that children can control their feelings, desires, and emotions in an appropriate and reasonable way, and can interact with their environment well. Based on observations that have been made, problems with social emotional development in children were found, such as difficulty interacting, difficulty managing emotions (tantrums), and aggression. Given these problems, close cooperation between researchers, schools, and parents is needed in organizing lantern making and decorating competitions involving children and parents. This lantern making and decorating activity is carried out through a service learning approach with the aim of facilitating positive interactions and effective communication between parents and children in strengthening emotional bonds and stimulating social emotional aspects such as cooperation, sharing ideas, and respecting differences. The results of the implementation of lantern making and decorating activities involving children and parents have proven successful. Through these activities, parents can understand the best parenting patterns that support children's social emotional development and children can directly learn and practice emotional management skills, including patience, perseverance, and the ability to overcome challenges or frustrations that may arise during tasks to achieve satisfactory final results.