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Abstract-- This study has the purpose to obtained that parent perceive on the digital advancement era in the meantime its impact on childrens social skills. In 4.0 Era, the younger generation is prompted to use gadget more often. it happen in this digital era when Children play with gadgets sitting or lying down at home and worse of all, apart from lacking in physical activity, and they only communicate with the apps screen rather than with their parents. In addition, the parents are crucial in nurturing preschoolers during the early stage of their development. In order to find out the prevalence of parents perceive on childrens social skills, The survey study has applied using the parents and their children in East Java as the participants. This study revealed that gadget excessive uses give the worse impact on childrens social skill and physical growth. Most of parents perceive gadget has decrease children social skill but they couldnt overcome the excessive gadget on their children. Regarding the implications, this survey has implications in early childhood activity through physical as well as social activity. Additionally parenting has the crucial implications in order that to be aware and taking actions to make the time management for children activity and explore their social ability.