Sex education in Indonesia is still a controversy, there are still many community members who have not agreed on sex education at home or at school. In general, the public view of sex education is considered "taboo" to talk about children, especially children of early age. the community often holds that it is not yet time for children of early age to understand about things related to sexuality. People assume that there is a time they will understand it naturally. that sex education from an early age is an effort to provide understanding to children from an early age adapted to their developmental stages (cognitive, attitude, and behavioral aspects) about the functioning of sexual devices and instinctive problems that arise, guidance on the importance of maintaining and maintaining their sex organs, and understanding of healthy intercourse and the risks that can occur around sexual problems. It takes concrete understanding in kindergarten teachers about how to implement sex education in early childhood at school. Understanding the importance of sex education in early childhood is provided in the workshop area, where teachers will have understanding and skills in implementing sex education in early childhood in accordance with the development within the child. Teachers are able to create a daily learning plan that contains sex education in it. It is hoped that the implementation of sex education in early childhood at school can help prevent children from sexual violence.

Parenting is the way parents to educated their children. Each parent has different educational habits. Parenting patterns applied by parents in a family also vary, it is strongly influenced by how parents want to treat their children. In general, there are 3 parenting patterns, namely: authoritative, permissive, and democratic. When parents agree to apply the pattern of parenting that is considered the most ideal for their children, then the pattern of  parenting that will apply the pattern of personality and habits within the child. In carrying out the parenting process of a parent child can provide an opportunity for the child to serve his needs on the simple side of things, as: when a one-year-old child begins to learn to hold a spoon and feed the food into his mouth by himself, in the supervision of his parents. Autonomy must be nurtured from an early age, and it is expected that autonomy can develop within the child. In developing the pattern of self-awareness in early childhood, as stated by Havinghurst that within a child there is an ability to make arrangements fortheir  emotion that is nothing but the ability to perform emotional regulation. In this study, researchers want to know how much influence of adopted parenting by the elderly on independence and emotional regulatory ability in early childhood. The design used in this study is quantitative, by developing 3 kinds of scale instruments, namely: the scale of parenting, the scale of autonomy, and the scale of emotional regulation. The scale is used to measure each of the variables present in this research. The result of hypothesis test using anova formula, with the help of SPSS.17, shows a significance value of 0.002 with a significance level of 0.05 (95%), indicating that there is a significant influence of parenting pattern on the independence and emotional regulation ability of the child early.

The early years are an important period for childhood development. This fundamental period is often referred to as the ‘golden age’. At an early age, teachers and parents are tasked with providing the basis or foundation for children’s lives in the future. One of the most important elements is the inculcation of life values that will shape the mindset and behaviour. Instilling these values can commence when the child is able to communicate well, and can be undertaken via habituation and the regular patterns of daily life. The purpose of this research is to provide a study of value planting through character education in early childhood. This research is a literature study conducted by researchers by analysing theoretical studies related to the early childhood, particularly those relating to moral and value development and character education. Keywords: Early childhood, moral and value development, Character education

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The unique of magnet behaviour has been explored by many parties and attracted them to describe its characteristics using analogy. The use of magnetism concepts analogy are varies including those in the field of education. As a part of a research aiming to investigate culture-based elementary school students’ analogical thinking skill, a study on magnetism concepts analogy has been carried out. By using interview, documentary study and literature review methods, several analogies of magnetism concepts were generated with the basis of various sources of students’ cultural background and learning materials. This paper discusses the analogies, particularly those which can be delivered in elementary school science class, and their implication for education of Pesisir (costal) students. Based on the review and discussion, it was concluded that the analogies of magnetism concepts facilitate people with high educational values which can be put into practice in science learning for Pesisir area students.