PENTINGNYA PENDIDIKAN ANAK USIA DINI AGAR DAPAT TUMBUH DAN BERKEMBANG SEBAGAI GENERASI BANGSA HARAPAN DI MASA DEPAN

Abstract

Early childhood education for children of pre-school age (3-6 years) is important, because at this age is a period of forming the foundations of the human personality, the ability to think, intelligence, skills and self-reliance and social skills in accordance with the mandate education law.               Basically the child's world is a world of fundamental human progress toward a more perfect human adult. It has been realized that the generation is the next generation that needs to be nurtured from an early age, thus fostering early is the responsibility of families, neighborhoods and communities. Thus fostering pre-school age children, especially the role of the family is crucial development.               Early childhood is the golden period (golden age) for the development of the child to the educational process. This period is the years of valuable for a child to recognize different kinds of facts on the environment as a stimulus to the development of personality, psychomotor, cognitive and sosialnya.Untuk it for early childhood education in the form of stimuli (stimulation) from the immediate environment is indispensable for optimizing the child's ability.