Parenting Education: Building Characters and Holding in Millennial Mental Problems

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200214.025How to use a DOI?

Keywords

parenting education, millennial mental problems, children’s mental problems, character education

Abstract

This research was conducted to see parents effort in improving their parenting skills, especially in building children’s character education. Parental education is very important and crucial for children. During 2007 to 2009 there were cases of juvenile delinquency which involves teenagers aged ≤18 years and cases of mental decline. This cases shows that there is a moral decline or character of millennial generation. Millennials tend to have weak mentality compared to the previous generations. This also indicates that the role of the family in shaping character to the millennials are not going well. This research was conducted using qualitative methods. The data was collected by conducting in-depth interviews with 21 parents who had children aged between 2–18 years as respondents. The collected data is reduced, interpreted and analyzed. The results of the study are presented in a narrative descriptive manner. The purpose of this research is to find out whether parents prepare themselves with the science of parenting.

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© 2020, 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  - Agung Wiradimadja
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/02/18
TI  - Parenting Education: Building Characters and Holding in Millennial Mental Problems
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Studies and Environmental Issues (ICOSSEI 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 145
EP  - 149
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200214.025
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200214.025
ID  - Wiradimadja2020
ER  -