The Role of Parents in Child Development: literatur review
Reni Mareta, Endang Sutisna Sulaeman, Retno Setyowati, Dwiningtyas Padmaningrum

Universitas Muhammadiyah Magelang
Universitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta

Abstract

Introduction: A child is someone aged 0-18 years. Children are assets for the family and the country which will later become human capital whose needs must be met in order to grow into quality human beings. Meeting the child^s needs is entirely the responsibility of the parents. Parents have a strategic role in educating and helping children^s growth and development. The number of early childhood children according to the Central Statistics Agency (BPS) in 2022 is 30.73 million people or the equivalent of 11.21% of Indonesia^s total population. This article is a form of literature review using data sources from Pubmed and Google Scholar. The literature search began in 2019-2023. The topic chosen was the role of parents in children^s growth and development. Searching using Pupmed got 138 articles which were then filtered again according to the criteria and found suitable articles and using Google Scholar got 19,300 articles which were then also filtered 2 according to the inclusion criteria, so that 4 suitable articles were filtered out. The results of the literature review show that parents play a very important role in children^s growth and development.

Keywords: Role of parents, child growth and development

Topic: Medicine & Health Sciences