Welcome to MODERN PARENTS

MODERN PARENTS is a website that provide information for parents to learn more about their children's development process. Every child is unique, and nobody knows your child and family more than you do. This website emphasizes :

- Social-Emotional Development
- How children learn through play
- Parenting tips
- Multiple intelligence

Lets discover more

Social-Emotional Development

Be your child's bestfriend and guide them to nurture self-management, self-awareness, responsible in decision-making, relationship skills and social awareness skills.

Play

It's time to widen our pespective about play and be the instructor when the kids are playing. Hence, they are also learning. Let the children be children.

Parenting Tips

A modern parent need to seek parenting knowledge as it can improve the quality of life. Tune in to your child's innermost thoughts and be the parents you want to be.

Multiple Intelligence

Parents need to remember that schools measure limited range of the child's abilities. Discover more with your child about their interests. There are 9 multiple intelligence to be discovered!

What is Social-Emotional Development?

It is how children start to understand who they are, what they are feeling and what to expect when interacting with others.

It is a phase where there are tremendous amount of social and emotional development take place during 0 until 6 years old,
at this ttime, the kids oftenly experience tantrum, mood swings and they are expanding their social world.

Kids with healthy social-emotional skills are more likely succeed in school, work and life.

Social-Emotional skills can help them to:

- Make friends and keep friendship
- Gain confidence
- Resolve conflicts
- Manage stress and anxiety
- Make appropriate decisions
- Resist negative social pressure
- Learn strengths and weaknesses
- Gain awareness of what others feeling

HOW CHILDREN LEARN THROUGH PLAY?

"90% part of the children's brains are formed by Emotional Intelligence (EQ)
and the rest 10% are formed by Cognitive Intelligence (IQ)"

Dr Putri Maria Afzan, founder of Kinderkaizen Preschool

At the age of 0 until 6 years old, one of the way to educate children is by playing as it is a natural way for children to learn.
They will explore lots of things during their play time. Play is a simple joy that is cherished part of the childhood.

When children play, they are developing skills in all areas of:

cognitive development
physical development
communication development
social-emotional development

They practice and reinforce these skills in a way that cannot be achieved through worksheet or screen time.

NATURAL

Play is natural stress reliever that allows children to work through their fears and anxiety.

JOY

Playing is fun and it is also a learning journey where it can enhance the excitement in gaining knowledge.

DISCOVERY

Play helps to build self worth by giving a child chance to develop his/her own abilities and to feel good about themselves. It also promotes risk taking as they are interactig with materials and their environment. This enhance their potential and self-esteem.

It also helps to nurture imagination and allows the children to use their creativity every time they explore new things.

ENGAGEMENT

When they play, they learn essential skills such as how to work in groups, to share things with others, to tolerate and negotiate, to resolve any conflict happens and learn self-advocacy skills.

CHILD DRIVEN

Children make their own decision during play, they start to move at their own pace, discover their own areas of interest, and start to engage fully in the passions they wish to pursue naturally.

SELF-CONTROL

Play supports the development of self-control and allows opportunities for them to regulate their feelings, delay gratification and negotiate with others. Self-control is critical for success later in life. This is how the social-emotional being developed.

TYPE OF PLAY

A Playworker's Taxonomy of Play Types by Bob Hughes

Symbolic Play

Rough and Tumble

Socio-Dramatic Play

Social Play

Creative Play

Dramatic Play

Communication Play

Locomotor Play

Exploratory Play

Deep Play

Fantasy Play

Imaginative Play

Mastery Play

Role Play

Object Play

Recapitulative Play

SCHOOL PRESSURE

Nowadays, even in preschool, teachers start preparing children to master the basic knowledge of reading, writing and counting as a preparation to go to primary school. However, some children may find this is more stressful and difficult than others.

Parents need to help the children feel competent in lots of other areas of life, especially those that are not measured in a classroom such as kindness, generosity or creativity.

Either the child score or not on school test, emphasize that trying, doing his best, learning and improving are more important than having top grades.

8 tips for parents to practice

Encourage children to see themselves as well-rounded characters who are more than the sum of their achievements on paper. Recognize and praise qualities such as humor, gratitude, kindness, self-control, optimism and persistence.

If children can't do something easily, it's usually because they haven't had the chance to learn or practice how to do it. Emphasize that learning is ongoing and that they will get better at any task with practice and feedback.

Aim to make your home a place where your children can retreat from the school day. Just as important as schoolwork is downtime, fresh air, exercise and family activities.

Rather than compare your child to others, delight in the combination of qualities that makes him/her uniquely who he/she is.

Explain that there is just one person who is truly worth beating-themselves. This way, children can always feel a sense of achievement when they improve.

Instead of praising your child for a fixed skill, such as being "good at math", praise him for the qualities he has control over, such as strategy and effort. Explain that he can always get better at a subject.

Play and learning are not two different things. Studies show that science and math are best learned through real-life experience. Children will understand money, for example, if they are taught to use it, and science if they spend time outdoors so they can see how key concepts work in the natural world.

Help your child understand that the brain is like a muscle that keeps getting stronger through exercise. Older children may comprehend that neutral pathways are built by practice and repetition. The more nerve cells are linked by firing together, the stronger the network becomes, forming a memory and eventually a skill.

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