1. UJANG CEPI BARLIAN
2. ERZA WARDANA
3. NINGNING CAHYANINGRUM
This research is motivated by the lack of parental understanding of the process of implementing parenting activities, to increase parents' understanding and awareness of the importance of their role in developing early childhood independence and increasing parents' ability to carry out their role in increasing early childhood independence, parenting management is needed in education. . For this reason, it requires maximum effort from the institution in managing its parenting program properly and structured from planning to supervision. This study generally aims to determine parenting management in increasing the independence of early childhood. The specific objective is to know the planning, implementation, evaluation, and obstacles faced by parenting management in increasing the independence of early childhood. In this study, researchers used a qualitative descriptive method. The results of this study are: 1) Parenting planning in increasing the independence of young children through work meetings at the beginning of the school year by the school together with parents/guardians. The planning process includes determining activities and materials to be carried out such as parent meeting classes such as seminars and consultation days, and parent involvement classes in joint events such as outbound and cooking classes which are listed on the school academic calendar, time and place of implementation. various purposes including as a forum for friendship, conveying the school's vision and mission, equating goals with parents in education and early childhood care to increase the independence of early childhood. There are two forms of implementing the parenting program: 1). Parent meeting class in the form of a seminar 2). Parent involvement classes in joint events in the form of outbound and cooking classes. 3) Parenting evaluation consists of (a) Evaluation carried out during parenting activities with parents through discussion and question and answer. (b) supervision and evaluation carried out after the parenting program activities, 4). The technical obstacle faced by the parenting program implementation process is the lack of good cooperation between the institution and the student's guardians. The conclusion of this study is that parenting management can improve parents' understanding of the process of implementing parenting activities. This research is recommended for the education office, parents, and for future researchers.
Management, parenting, early childhood, independence.