Parental Love Helps Children Look Out to the Future

#ParentingWithLove - Giving love to children can be done through many things. One of them is by supporting children to love themselves. By loving themselves, children dare to express themselves and discover their potential from an early age.

A couple of public figures named Baim and Artika Sari Devi claimed to have applied equal love to their two favorite daughters. Through compassion and deep attention to children, both of them are now able to deepen their children's character.

"We agree that in parenting children, we must be able to control emotions ... The approach to children can be started with, if possible, not using harsh words," said Baim in the Parenting with Love web seminar with WVI last week.

Spending days with children during the Covid-19 pandemic made Baim and Artika indirectly work together to provide the best for their children. Open communication and recognition of children's basic potentials are very important for this family.

"It is our job to introduce the potential to what they have. Children are Imaginative, but at least we equip them with very basic things such as time management, discipline, hard work, and resilience, for example during pandemic times. This is our focus too because in our opinion they are the most affected because children have to stay at home,” explained Putri Indonesia 2004.

Baim and Artika are now beginning to recognize the potential of their firstborn who tends to like the world of art and language. Getting used to exploring children's potential is also often done by both of them every day, such as singing together and giving lessons to children.

Although they continue to build close relationships with children, Artika added, she and her husband still enforce clear rules and boundaries at home. This is done in order to create good time management between children and parents.

"We are warm but firm, meaning that there are boundaries and rules, there is time management so that it helps us as parents who work from home can have good time management at home, something we agree on together," she added.

At the end of the web seminar session, Artika reiterated that whatever the potential of the child, parents still need to prioritize children's emotional intelligence.

"Academic intelligence is important but what determines is the emotional intelligence of children, good social skills. While we have a lot of time with our children, let's teach them. How to solve problems between siblings, friends, listen to the story first, let him feel, because if a child is too protected he will not be formed. Listen more, help him express his emotions," she concluded.
 

Written by: Putri Ianne Barus, Communications Officer of Wahana Visi Indonesia