Anak dan Kesabaran Orang Tua

“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 dengan kesabaran...

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Solusi Tebaik bagi Anak

“Resolution, like responsibility, is a product of ownership, and kids can't resolve a conflict until they figure out how they contributed to it.”                                 Richard Eyre,...

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Pedoman Berbicara kepada Buah Hati

“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.              ...

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Keinginan Belajar 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, hard work, perserverance,...

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Memperlakukan Anak Sebagai Manusia

“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 sebaik mungkin. Pendidikan yang...

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Lingkungan Luar Sekolah 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. Anak yang dibesarkan...

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Menghindarkan Buah Hati dari Mental yang Kurang Baik

“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 masa ke masa, mulai belajar berjalan hingga belajar menulis dan belajar melakukan aktifitas lainnya...

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Anak dan Orang Tua yang Berseberangan

“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 would be asking too much....

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Kebahagiaan Anak dan Orang Tua

“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 tua pasti menginginkan...

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Usaha Terbaik 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 membahagiakan putra-putrinya...

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Memfokuskan Diri pada Hal-Hal Besar

“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 yang harus dikenakan,...

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Perilaku Terpuji 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 orang tua. Namun,...

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Pendidikan Masa Kini

“One reason we have children I think is to learn that parts of ourselves we had given up for dead are merely dormant and that the old joys can re emerge fresh and new and in a completely different form.” Anne Fadiman, jurnalis. Setiap orang tua pasti pernah mengalami masa kecil. Sebagian besar...

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Kata "Tidak" pada Pendidikan Anak

“Say “no” only when it really matters. Wear a bright red shirt with bright orange shorts? Sure. Put water in the toy tea set? Okay. Sleep with your head at the foot of the bed? Fine. Samuel Johnson said, “All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.” , Gretchen Rubin...

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Rasa Saling Percaya

“Who's crazy: people who trust other people, or people who don't?” Lenore Skenazy, kolumnis Kepercayaan tidak hanya berjalan satu arah. Oleh karena itu, orang tua dan anak harus saling percaya agar hubungannya semakin erat dan terjalin dengan baik. Salah satu cara untuk memenangkan kepercayaan...

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Masa Kecil Orang Tua

“He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.” Cormac McCarthy, novelis Masa kecil memang masa-masa yang sangat menyenangkan. Orang tua akan sering teringat masa kecilnya...

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Mengarahkan Rasa Ingin Tahu Anak

“I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.” Brian Andreas, seniman. Memberi pendidikan pada anak adalah bagian dari kewajiban utama orang tua. Anak yang terdidik dengan baik akan menjadi...

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Mendidik Karakter Mandiri

“Independence isn't doing your own thing; it's doing the right thing on your own.” Kim John Payne, pakar pendidikan Kemandirian adalah salah satu bekal menuju kehidupan yang sukses. Anak yang mandiri akan menjadi kebanggaan orang tuanya. Sikap mandiri juga sangat dibutuhkan dalam menghadapi berbagai...

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Menyerap Aspirasi Anak

“We're [parents]) always bluffing, pretending we know best, when most of the time we're just praying we won't screw up too badly.” Jodi Picoult, novelis Orang tua sering kali menjadi pihak yang dicap “sok tahu” oleh buah hatinya. Label tersebut tertanam karena perilaku orang tua yang terkesan menggurui...

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Pendidikan Tentang Usaha bagi Anak

“Instead of communicating "I love you, so let me make life easy for you," I decided that my message needed to be something more along these lines: "I love you. I believe in you. I know what you're capable of. So I'm going to make you work.” Kay Wills Wyma, blogger Mendidik anak untuk terus berusaha...

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Mendidik Sebagai Ayah

“Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence” William P. Young, novelis Ibu memang merupakan pendidikan...

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Mempraktekkan Ilmu dari Anak

“You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had.” Marshall Rosenberg, psikolog Memberi pendidikan kepada anak tidak hanya soal teori namun juga praktek. Karena kehidupan adalah kumpulan dari praktek-praktek...

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Menjaga Buah Hati

“I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.” Joe Hill, novelis. Menjaga anak adalah salah satu kewajiban utama orang tua. Selain menjaga anak secara fisik, batin atau mental anak juga harus dijaga. Salah satu upaya menjaga mental anak...

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Buah Hati Bahagia

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.” Oscar Wilde, sastrawan Membantu anak agar merasa bahagia adalah salah satu kewajiban orang tua. Anak yang bahagia akan menularkan kebahagiaannya kepada anggota keluarga yang lain sehingga tercipta satu keluarga bahagia. Membahagiakan anak sejak...

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Menjadi Orang Tua yang Sabar

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” Franklin P. Adams, kolumnis Kesabaran termasuk salah satu faktor terpenting dalam pendidikan anak. Anak yang dididik dengan sikap sabar dapat menunjukkan perilaku dan akhlak yang baik terhadap sesama dan membantu...

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Proses Kehidupan Ibu dan Anak

“Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd...

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