Indian Journal of Public Health Research & Development

  • Year: 2019
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 6

Promotion of Media Literacy for the Early Childhood's Parents

1Magister Scholar, Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Airlangga, Surabaya, Indonesia

2Lecturer, Indonesian Language and Literature, Faculty of Literature, State University of Malang, Malang, Indonesia

3Lecturer, Departement of Primary Education and Preschool, Faculty of Education, State University of Malang, Malang, Indonesia

Abstract

Technological advances in the present era are very important to all aspects of life in society. One of the current phenomena is the use of media to early childhood. The current problem is that many of the early age children are using unsupervised media from both parents. They are pay less attention to the use of media for children and let them without supervision from others, especially parents. Whereas, in the media there are various contents that are sometimes not suitable for children's consumption at an early age. Not a few parents who do not know or are not aware of the threat. So that there needs to be an intervention design that aims to increase parental awareness about the importance of knowledge about media literacy in children. The purpose of this paper is to make psycho-education about media literacy to support those who have a children in Early Childhood. This paper uses the literature review method that discusses the problem of media for early childhood and the role of parents in early childhood problems both through journals, books, news and videos, and equipped with interview methods. The findings of this paper are to make health promotion media for parents who have early childhood.

Keywords

Literacy, Media Literacy, Parents, Children, Early Childhood