POSITIVE DISCIPLINE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD TOWARD LEARNING IN NEW NORMAL

Abstract

The positive discipline of early childhood is important to promote children's learning for their readiness in physical, emotional, social, and intellectual aspects. Early childhood children should have good experiences with the environment around them. The parents, teachers, or related persons are part of contributing to promoting and supporting the learning ecosystem through the principles of positive discipline to 1) set behavioral expectations for children, 2) respect and understand children's differences, 3) communicate reasonably, listen and respect children's opinions, 4) be a good and appropriate role model and 5) support good behavior and promote children's potential. The emergence of changes leading to a new normal exposes early childhood to challenges in learning. Moreover, the use of media or technology is rising which affects children's learning needs to be adapted according to the circumstances that arise as well. Therefore, building a good relationship between children is fundamental to creating positive discipline. However, positive discipline should be encouraged from early childhood because it is considered the age with the fastest learning development. This affects the development of skills in 3 areas: 1) EQ (Emotional Quotient): Emotional intelligence, 2) SQ (Social Quotient): Social intelligence, and 3) MQ (Moral Quotient): Moral intelligence. All these skills promote learning in the new normal and are in line with the principles of education management around the world that focus on children's self-learning, life skills, ability to live happily with others, and growing up to be quality citizens of society.