Children's Gross Motor: After-school Activities And Mother's Role at Home (A Survey Study of Kindergarten Group A, at Pondok Aren District, Tangerang Selatan, Banten Province, Indonesia)
- DOI
- 10.2991/icece-16.2017.86How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Children's gross motor ability; children after-school activities; mother's role
- Abstract
The aim of this research is to determine 4-5-year-old children gross motor ability on jumping, children's after-school activities, and their mothers' roles, on the students of kindergarten group A, Pondok Aren District, South of Tangerang, Banten Province, Indonesia. It was a survey study; which sample was chosen by purposive sampling technique. 6 kindergartens participated in this research, 161 questionnaires to the parents, and gross motor ability test in jumping for 66 kids. The findings of this research showed that : (1) The jumping ability of some children gross motor skills need to be improved, because they have a bit problem with their body weight, (2) Mostly their after school-activities are cognitive activities such as taking course of math, reading, writing, or foreign language, art activities such as taking course of coloring/drawing, music, dancing, or just at home passively activities by watching TV or play online games, (3) Most of their mothers are well educated career women whose working locations are far enough from their houses. And unfortunately, most of the children are only accompanied by their maids or nannies that have low educational background, less knowledge and experiences about how to take care or handle the early age children.
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- © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Diah Andika Sari PY - 2016/11 DA - 2016/11 TI - Children's Gross Motor: After-school Activities And Mother's Role at Home (A Survey Study of Kindergarten Group A, at Pondok Aren District, Tangerang Selatan, Banten Province, Indonesia) BT - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Early Childhood Education (ICECE 2016) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 494 EP - 499 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icece-16.2017.86 DO - 10.2991/icece-16.2017.86 ID - AndikaSari2016/11 ER -