UNDERSTANDING CHILDREN AGES EARLY

To understand the meaning of early childhood, the dominant view is that childhood is a period of the longest in the vulnerable person's life, when individuals where relatively powerless and tergantu to others. Early childhood / childhood dimlai after baby found a dependence, which is estimated at 2 years of age until the child is sexually mature, around the age of 13tahun for women and 14 years for men.


Childhood dibag into two distinct periods, namely early and late childhood. pediode early going at the age of 2-6 years and the final period at the age of 6 until the time the child is sexually mature.

The dividing line is important, especially used for children before they reach compulsory schooling required is very different from the children who attend school. While the mention of education as early in childhood as pre-school age.

Children at an early age as the age at which the child has not yet entered a formal educational institutions, such as elementary school, and they usually stay at home or take part in a variety of pre-school educational institutions such as play groups, kindergartens or nursery garden.

Early childhood can be said to be the age that can not be required to think logically, which is marked with the following rationale:

• Think concrete, in which the child can not understand or think about things that are abstract (like justice and love)
• Egocentric, ie see things only from their own point of view and not easy to accept the explanation of the other side.
• Realism, which is a strong tendency to respond to everything as real or unreal.
• Animism, which is a tendency to think that all of the objects in their environment as having human qualities possessed child.
• Tendency to berpikirs simple and not easily accept something plural.
• Sentrasi, namely his tendency to concentrate on a particular aspect of the situation.
• Early childhood can be said to have a very rich imagination and imagination is often said to be the beginning of the seed of creativity in children.

From the above it can be concluded that the notion of early childhood is the condition of children aged two to six years, which is in the early development of childhood, that is characterized by concrete thinking, realism, simple, animism, sentrasi, and has the power of imagination rich.