Parent Commitment in Children Early Education

Abstract

This research is meant to know the influence of parent role in children early education (CEE) for children development. The resarch is correlational study. The research subjects are 100 parents having child under five and participating in children early education (PAUD) in Yogyakarta Special Territory. Data are gathered through sended questionaires, interview, and observation. Data are analyzed through quantitive-descriptive and intepretative mixed method. The result finds that there is an influence CEE actvities on children development, tahat can be seen from the effectiveness contribution of the variable (Parents in CEE) on variable (Children Development), as big as 11,945 per cent, that means there are still other variables (88,055 per cent) enfluence children development. The influence can be seen from relative contribution of each variable, namely the parent commitment to give children early education (84,460 per cent), parents perception on children activities in CEE (10,035 per cent) and parents perception on CEE educators and guidance (5,506 per cent). Refer to the result above, it is recommended that the Ministry of Social Affairs through Children Welfare Directory, should hold some program that invite children underfive and parent as family (like parenting), so children are away from any handycap and develop optimally.