Mother Role Shift and Early Childhood Education

Abstract

This study aims to know how cognitive abilities children whose mothers go to work and whose mother at home. Researchers used qualitative descriptive method. The results show that 62, 32% of mother go to work (37.68% work full until the afternoon and the rest work part of the time leaving home). As for the care of children for mothers who are full of work they leave it entirely to their nanny. They do not leave their children in daycare because they are not affordable. The cognitive levels of children whose mothers at home is better than the children whose mothers go to work. Keywords—mother's role; early childhood education