HUBUNGAN PENGETAHUAN DENGAN SIKAP ORANG TUA TERHADAP PENINGKATAN STIMULASI PERKEMBANGAN ANAK USIA 4-5 TAHUN

Referring to WHO, the problem of child development is a problem that needs to be known or understood from conception to adulthood until the age of 18 years. Some child development problems that need detection include 10% of children will achieve ability at an early age, 50% of children will achieve ability, 75% of children will achieve more abilities, 90% of children will have to be able to reach the ability at the age limit at the latest still in normal limit and 10% of children are included in the late category if they have not been able to reach their abilities. Parents must always give stimulation / stimulation to children in all aspects of development both gross and fine motoric, language and social personal. This stimulation must be given routinely and continuously with love, playing methods and others. This article presents the results of research on the Relationship of Knowledge with Attitudes of Parents to Increased Stimulation of Development of Children 4-5 Years Old in XVIII Hamlet, Paya Bakung Village, Hamparan Perak Subdistrict, Deli Serdang District in 2018 which aims to determine parents' knowledge of parental interest in stimulating . This research is an analytic survey that tries to explore how and why health phenomena occur. Then analyze the correlation dynamics between phenomena or between risk factors and effect factors. The population in this study were parents who had children aged 4-5 years as many as 30 people in VXII Hamlet, Paya Bakung Village, Hamparan Perak District, Deli Serdang Regency. While the sampling technique in this study using total sampling technique is the number of population sampled as many as 30 people. From the results of the research obtained in XVIII Hamlet, Paya Bakung Village, Hamparan Perak Subdistrict, Deli Serdang Regency that almost all parents who have children aged 4-5 years know how to stimulate good development for their children if children cannot experience delays that can be caused by lack of fulfillment in children, in which is the need to play. Childhood should be a period of play that is expected to foster maturity in growth and development, so that if the period is not used as well as possible, of course, it will eventually disrupt the growth of children.