"Gobak Sodor" in Group Counseling to Improve Interpersonal Communication Skills in Early Childhood

Abstract

Abstract-Character is a distinguishing factor between individuals with one another. Positive characters reflect a positive person, and vice versa. Early childhood is the most important phase in character building efforts. Character formation has several influencing factors, including the parent factor. Parents become a very important factor because through parents is a child at an early age will know, acquire and learn the first language or known as the mother tongue. Through the mother tongue, parents will try to shape the character of his son to be a child with a positive character. The proper use of diction in mother tongue becomes very important because proper selection of words / diction will give precise suggestions. Language has the ability to form the character of the child because the vocabulary contained in the Indonesian language has a positive taste value will cause the impact of positive suggestions, and vice versa.

Unraveling the Life Problems of the Samin Kudus Community with Indigenous Counseling

“…For example, (Supriyanto et al, 2019) offers the concept of peace guidance and counseling through the value of the characterization of Punokawan who has the character of being wise, trustworthy, honest, open-minded, and brave in facing complex problems. Ratnasari et al, (2018) offers the gobak sodor game as a group counseling medium that offers the value of communication skills, patience, honesty, openness, and awareness. In addition, religious values can also be used as a basis for counseling.…”