Positive Parenting, Means of Reconstructs the Positive of Psychology and Mental for Children of Tsunami Victims.

Abstract: This study aims to recommend a concept to reconstruct the psychological and mental aspect positively for children of tsunami victims in Aceh. It is called Positive parenting as a concept of children upbringing in order to grow up their positive potencies, intellectual intelligence, emotional, and also encourage their moralistic-idealistic based on their spiritual. Tsunami brings own traumatic for the children in Aceh, their endurance is not enough yet to face this problem. They lose many things in life, such as friends, place for playing, school, house, and almost of them lose their family. It gives own impact for their psychological and mental aspect which influences them to continue their life. Children, victim of disaster, is experiencing long term traumatic symptoms include memories and fear of the disaster, and depression – their innocent about nature is lost and many suffer long term emotional distress, anxiety and depression are partly due to reality of the lost or injury starting to sink in the psychology. Children who have lost their families - parents and their siblings - adopted by families, parents of friends, other people, some joined the boarding school, social camps, as well as charitable institutions. Those have duty to upbringing the children, not only be in control of their physical improvement, but also psychology and mental aspect. Orphanages determine the pattern of children's lives then, success or failure in creating them to have psychological and mental aspects of both. In some studies indicate that social camps and charitable institutions to a new place to commit violence. Children should be given protection, but quite the contrary they accept the practice of violence. This violence is also very possible occur in places other. So, all parents and caregivers must understand that good parenting for children of tsunami victims.

The results of this study show how important every parent or guardian has knowledge about the care of children affected by the tsunami, mainly related to the development of psychology and mental aspects of them. An aspect that is should be an important focus for improvement. From this study, researchers recommended the concept of positive parenting as a concept has to offer in raising the children of tsunami victims. Concepts taught to every parent to think positive for their children, because with positive thinking, character, psychology, and positive mental well will grow. This concept is also not only concern with material intelligence improvement, but also the mental intelligence. Concept which combines the source of the latest western and Islamic treasures very rich associated with educating children. Concept is very suitable combination was developed in Aceh which has a high Muslim spiritual.

Keywords : Positive parenting, reconstruct, psychological and mental, children.

This abstract is following call for paper in Aceh Development International Conference