Indonesia
Ayah Edi: There’s No Such Bad Boy
Many kids with dominant right brain are forced to work with the left brain. These kids are usually branded as bad kids, both at school and home. This mistakenly brand is simply because parents and teachers’ failure to recognize the true potential of the kids. They see the kids as bad kids because these parents and teachers alike don’t know how to deal with them.
“Do you happen to have kids who just don’t stay still? They can’t see an object without trying to tear it apart. Kids who often make their friends cry, or perhaps they have the brand as bad kids on them?” ask the parenting motivator Ayah Edi, opened the seminar with theme “Menemukan Potensi dalam Diri Anakku” or “Finding Potential in My Kids” in Jakarta, Saturday (28/9) morning. “Congratulations, it makes you very lucky parents!” he shouted and the 500 superparents in the Balai Sarbini Concert Hall laughed.
As always, Ayah Edi can explain this. He said that there’s no such thing as a bad kid in the world. “Give these kids parents who can understand and educate them, those kids i mentioned will be great people someday,” Ayah Edi, who is well known as the initiator of Indonesian Strong from Home parenting, convinced the audience.
Ayah Edi’s background is educational practitioner with Multiple Intelegent dan Holistic Learning. He laid out the fact that parents have the tendency to see all kids are the same, but they don’t. Each of them has their own unique personality and capability. The proper approach should be different too. Parents need some kind of mapping in developing the uncovered potential within their lovely kids.
Ayah Edi then provided the audience with a very common sample. Kids with right brain, their brain tend to switch on working mode when body is moving or they start talking loudly. These kids will get restless if being told to stay still. A teacher who fails to see this will automatically brand him, and as for the result, they may strike from school.
“This is the dilemma of our educational world. The question is, what went wrong? Is it the kids or the system? Perhaps that is why Indonesia is yet to have such great mind like Leonardo Da Vinci and Albert Einstein,” the writer of “Ayah Edi Punya Cerita” closed the sentence with regret.
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