Bersabar dalam Menghadapi Anak

“No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.” Abraham Verghese, professor kesehatan. Mendidik anak memerlukan kesabaran yang tidak sedikit. Sabar adalah salah satu karakter yang dibutuhkan oleh anak dan orang tua. Hubungan yang dilandasi...

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Berdialog dengan Anak

“If I had to make a general rule for living and working with children, it might be this: be wary of saying or doing anything to a child that you would not do to another adult, whose good opinion and affection you valued.” John Holt, aktivis pendidikan. Masa kanak-kanak adalah...

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Teladan Anak

“Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.” Phyllis Diller, komedian. Memperlakukan anak dengan baik adalah kewajiban setiap orang tua. Anak yang dibesarkan oleh teladan yang baik dan santun akan tumbuh menjadi pribadi serupa....

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Mengarahkan Rasa Ingin Tahu Anak

“To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline,...

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Mendidik Sikap Anak

“What do we say to a guest who forgets her umbrella? We say "Here's your umbrella, Alice," without adding "scatterbrain." Parents need to learn to respond to their children as they do to guests.” Haim G. Ginott, pakar psikologi anak. Mendidik anak wajib dilakukan semaksimal...

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Lingkungan Terbaik untuk Pendidikan Anak

“An environment-based education movement--at all levels of education--will help students realize that school isn't supposed to be a polite form of incarceration, but a portal to the wider world.” Richard Louv, jurnalis Lingkungan adalah salah satu penentu kualitas pendidikan anak....

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Kenakalan Anak

“People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.” Lev Vygotsky, pakar psikologi Memiliki anak yang baik adalah keinginan setiap...

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Fokus Pendidikan

“Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind.” Charlotte M. Mason, pakar pendidikan anak. Orang tua sering kali terlalu memfokuskan diri pada kegiatan anak yang sebenarnya tidak terlalu penting unduk diurusi. Seperti pakaian...

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Kasih Seorang Ibu

“If you want to be treated like a mother, act like one.” Jeannette Walls, jurnalis Menjadi seorang ibu adalah tanggung jawab besar bagi setiap perempuan. Ibu yang baik tidak diukur dari harta yang melimpah atau paras yang cantik dan menawan. Ibu yang baik adalah ibu yang bisa...

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Menjadi Diri Sendiri

“I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives." Susan Sarandon, aktris Setiap orang...

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Membahagiakan Buah Hati

“We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want them to be like we are, or better than we are. We as humans are very unimaginative in that sense. We aren't equipped for the possibility that they might be worse. But I guess that...

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Buah Hati sebagai Anugerah

“Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.” Dan Pearce, blogger parenting Anak adalah anugerah bagi orang tuanya. Melihat anak tumbuh dan berkembang dari waktu ke waktu, mulai belajar berjalan hingga belajar berbicara dan belajar melakukan...

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Peran Ayah dalam Pendidikan

“My father liked me, when I wasna being an idiot. And he loved me, too -- enough to beat the daylights out of me when I was being an idiot. Jamie Fraser” Diana Gabaldon, novelis Ayah adalah salah satu faktor penting dalam pendidikan anak. Tidak hanya berperan sebagai kepala...

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