Environmental Influence on Child Development
Our children are built by their environment. The environment is one important factor in supporting children's intelligence. According to dr. Melly Budhiman in Intisari Magazine (March, 1996), children's intelligence or intelligence, three factors including congenital factors, nutritional factors, and environmental factors. The environment participates in shaping the way of learning, to the way children respond to things.
One example of a busy, lively, and many people environment, makes children easy to socialize, easy to make other people's characters. Likewise, it is environmentally friendly for children who are quiet, and there are only mothers at home, so children will tend to be closed or closed themselves.
The first environment they see is of course the family, but the bigger the child can walk, the wider the child's environment will be. He increasingly embodies his village, his one-person, to the plants around them and their friends. This environment is what helps shape how our children will behave in the future. We can listen to the story of Suharto's childhood, how he learned from his environment.
In the book entitled Anak Desa (1982) by O.G. Roeder, it is clearly illustrated how the environment in Suharto's childhood was. Village children do not have toys. In this way they played with the pebbles on the road leading to the house, or scratched the ground with their fingers.
Some children were given games that they made themselves, made from old wooden branches or woven from coconut leaves. Most of the children are allowed to play in the garden.
The story or story of Suharto in his childhood is probably not experienced by most children today in the cities. They rarely see rice fields, let alone play in the fields. They are rarely soiled with soil, or close to nature.
The presence of technology in the study room such as cellphones or play stations is closer to them. For this reason, it is natural that children today are not only less mobile, but also less agile. We can trace the story when little Kartini was nicknamed Trinil, referring to the name of a bird who was dexterous or agile.
Today, such stories are becoming increasingly rare. We can find a similar narrative about nature and its relation to children in a book entitled Burung-Cakrawala by Mochtar Pabottingi. He wrote about his experience: “I like to dream of being a bird the most. From an early age I liked and admired the various birds around the house.
In our house on stilts which are all made of wood, there is always the sound of any bird or insect on all four sides. I've always been jealous of the birds' ability to fly to and perch so easily wherever they like ”. From nature, children not only learn about motion, about sounds, about the names of trees, animals, and the world around them. From that nature, children also learn wisdom and wisdom that cannot always be judged by numbers or letters alone.