The Relationship Between Parenting Patterns Of Working Mothers With Child Growth And Development In TK An Nuur Lubuk Alung Padang Pariaman District

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Working mothers have a dual role in addition to being a career as well as a housewife. One of the impacts of working mothers is not being able to give full attention to their children in the stage of rapid growth and development. The purpose of this study was to study the relationship between the growth and development of kindergarten children and the parenting patterns of working mothers. This study is an analytic observational study with a cross sectional design. The sample of this study were kindergarten children whose mothers worked. The sample size was 58 kindergarten children. Samples were selected by simple random sampling. The independent variable of the study is parenting, namely the intensity of the meeting between mother and child, the length of time the mother is with the child, the activities carried out by the mother with the child, the mother's communication with the child, and the determination of the meal menu in the family. The results of the study showed that the majority of children's growth was normal (81%), according to their development (91.4%), the intensity of meetings was rare (53.4%), the mother spent less time with the child (32.8), the highest activity was eating ( 75.9%), two-way communication (75.9%), and mother as the determinant of eating (69%).. The results of the spearmen correlation statistical test show that there is a relationship but not significant between communication and the growth and development of kindergarten children (rs = 0.223; p = 0.093), and there is a positive relationship with strong closeness and the relationship is significant between communication and child development (rs = 0.403 ;p = 0.002). The results of the chi-square statistical test show that there is no relationship between mother and child activities and child growth and development. Based on the results of this research, it can be concluded that working mothers lose a lot of time accompanying their children. Therefore, it is recommended that kindergartens conduct periodic child growth and development tests every six months and working mothers should be able to use their time with their children as effectively as possible.