The Effectiveness of Increasing Parental Competence in Assisting Children Accessing Gadgets in the Covid-19 Pandemic Era Before and After Being Given Counselling

Abstract

Parents are people who play a role and are fully responsible for their children. During the COVID-19 pandemic, all activities and daily habits have changed, especially in education. For this reason, parental assistance in accessing gadgets during the COVID-19 pandemic is very necessary. The role of parents in assisting children's success while studying at home is central to that. One of the challenges of parents in this modern era is the magnitude of the existence of technology in children's lives, so that it is almost inseparable from the activities of daily life, and one of them is gadgets as a form of modernity. Gadget is a term that comes from English, which means a small electronic device that has a special function. One thing distinguishing gadget from other electronic devices is the element of "novelty". Every day, gadgets always appear by presenting the latest technology that makes human life more practical. Gadget is one of the multifunctional technological devices, and its development is very fast. Gadget users are not only adults. Even children are very familiar with gadgets. The purpose of this study was that respondents, especially parents, can be more competent in accompanying their children when accessing gadgets and increasing parental competence in assisting children accessing gadgets was one solution to increase children's learning motivation. The type of this study used is quantitative with a pre-experimental design. The population of this study were all mothers of Muslimat NU 6 Kindergarten children. While the sampling technique in this study was Total sampling, the sample was all mothers of Muslimat NU 6 Kindergarten children. The results of this study used cross-tabulation, there was an effect of increasing parental competence in accompanying children accessing gadgets with the motivation of learning for Muslimat NU 6 Kindergarten children.