How are Parents Involved in Cultivating Chlidrens Reading Interest
Septiyati Purwandari, Putri Meinita, Tawil, Rasidi

Universitas Muhammadiyah Magelang

Abstract

Talking about reading interest, it does not stop with the availability and literacy movement programs in schools alone. Because reading interest is built through a habituation process that has been carried out since childhood. So it is most effective to start with the family. For this reason, parents have an important task so that every child has an interest in reading. When children have an interest in reading, it can be said that they have basic assets, namely a willingness to seek information, a willingness to be knowledgeable and a better ability to concentrate. The problem of reading interest is very much influenced by parenting patterns. Not many parents have the knowledge that the essence of parenting is to care for the child^s ^learning nature^. Parents understand that having a habit of like reading is better than being able to read. But how do you get the parents involved to grow the habbit? not many understand it.
Moving on from this phenomenon experienced by parents, this research aims to find forms of parental involvement in fostering children^s reading interest. A total of 521 parents who have children aged 5 to 9 years are respondents who live in the DIY and Central Java regions. Characteristics of respondents are parents who have a fairly average distribution in terms of education from SD to S1 and 71% of the characteristics are working parents. Therefore, to reveal the meaning of the events that occurred, exploratory study research was used with an inductive approach in order to obtain information so that it could be mapped conceptually. The researcher made an instrument from a literature review study and its validity has been tested, namely for the data analysis technique used, namely descriptive analysis in order to describe the forms of parental involvement in fostering reading interest. From the validated instruments, 18 items show that parental involvement in developing reading interest is 3 things, namely parental involvement, namely modeling,

Keywords: keterlibatan, orangtua, minatbaca

Topic: Education