Intervention "Stop, Calm, Talk" to Increase Self-Control of Children Age 4-5 Years
Andi Nur Zamzam Arman
Universitas Indonesia, Depok
Abstract
The ability of self-control in children can support academic abilities, build moral of children and prosocial abilities with others around him. At the age of 4-5 years , children included in a friendship and are prone to have a conflict with their friends. If the child does not have good self-control in expressing emotions and motor skills can cause aggressive behavior towards others. So we need an intervention to improve childrens self-control from hitting behavior at the age of 4-5 years. The interventions that can be given are "Stop, Calm, Talk" interventions. This intervention will be taught in three days consisting of 5 sessions. Each session is about 20-30 minutes. This intervention aims to increase children-s self-control from hitting behavior at the age of 4-5 years . It is refers to three steps: modeling self-control to children, increasing childrens motivation to control themselves, and teaching children to hold their desires or think before acting.
Keywords: self-control, intervention, children
Topic: Character Education for Early Year Children