Hari-hari ini kita melihat perkembangan dunia pendidikan begitu cepat. Dengan didukung oleh kemajuan teknologi yang pesat, informasi terbuka luas untuk kita akses. Fenomena ini membuat kita kagum, tetapi sebagai orang tua, kita juga kuatir, apakah anak-anak kita dapat berprestasi? Apakah anak-anak kita mampu bersaing? Sebagian orang tua menggenjot nilai anak-anaknya dengan les atau mengisi sebanyak mungkin informasi ke sel otak anak. Samapai-sampai tidak ada lagi celah bagi anak-anak mengembangkan kreativitas dan keterampilan hidup dan tidak tersisa lagi waktu untuk melakukan kegiatan kebersamaan antara orang tua dan anak.
Reader's Digest Indonesia edisi Agustus 2008 menulis, bahwa di Filipina, hanya 61% anak mampu menyelesaikan pendidikan sekolah lanjutan tingkat atas. Nilai ilmu pengetahuan dan matematika para pelajar di tingkat ke enam pun relatif rendah. Anak-anak di Singapura, yang meraih tinggi di kejuaraan internasional bidang matematika dan sains, juga mulai wajib menggenkot ketertinggalan di bidang kreativitas dan wirausaha.
Sudah banyak studi yang mengatakan bahwa faktor paling konsisten dalam pencapaian prestasi anak adalah lingkungan rumah da keterlibatan orang tua. Dukkungan orang tua tercipta melalui menyediakan waktu kebersamaan dengan anak-anak, tetapi adakalnya ada kata-kata yang biasa kita ucapkan, tetapi dapat melukai secara emosi dan psikologis. Salah satu cara kita dapat mewujudkan lingkungan tersebut adalah dengan menggantikan kata-kata yang merusak atau melukai dengan kata-kata yang membangun karakter.
Kata-kata seperti,"Kamu harus bangga karerna usaha kamu.", Jangan mengunakan, "Tidak usah dipikrkan. Lupakan saja", tetapui pakai kata-kata seperti,"Papa paham kamu sedang kesal dan marah, mau cerita ke Papa, kan?" Anak-anak perlu mengekspresikan perasaannya, jadi berikan rasa nyaman untuk bercerita dan dorong mereka untuk meresponinya dengan baik.
Setiap anak diciptakan Tuhan unik adanya. Meski dibesarkan dalam keluarga yang sama, oleh orang tua yang sama, tetapi anak-anak tidak mengalami pemenuhan kebutuhan akan kasih yang sama, karena setiap anak memiliki bahasa kasih yang berbeda-beda.
1. Sentuhan fisik adalah bahasa kasih yang paling mudah digunakan tanpa syarat dalam keluarga, seperti menepuk pundak, menggandeng, merangkul, memeluk dan sebagainya, yang penerapannya dapat berbeda menurut usia dan jenis kelamin.
2. Kata-kata penegas sangat besar pengaruhnya dalam kehidupan seorang anak, tetapi bagi anak dengan bahasa kasih kata-kata penegas, kata-kata yang diucapkan oleh orang tuanya adalah 'penentu" bagi barometer emosinya.
3. Sekalipun setiap anak mengharapkan kebersamaan dengan orang tuanya, tetapi anak-anak dengan bahasa kasih waktu berkualitas membutuhkan lebih daripada anak-anak dengan bahasa kasih lainnya. Memberikan waktu berkualitas berarti memberikan perhatian yang terfokus dan tidak terbagi dengan yang lain, dapat dinyatakan melalui kontak mata, berbagi pikiran dan perasaan, bercerita, atau melakukan sesuatu bersama-sama.
4. Anak-anak dengan bahasa kasih hadiah merasa dirinuya dicintai bila orang tua memberi hadiah kepada mereka, tetapi bukan hadiah yang diberikan oleh orang tua untuki menggantikan keterlibatan mereka secara pribadi karena sibuk.
5. Anak dengan bahasa kasih layanan akan merasa dikasihi jika dibantu, diajari, dan senantaisa hadir disaat mereka membutuhkan. walaupun perhatian seperti ini yang dibutuhkan, tetapi nampaknya seperti memanjakan dan tidak membuat anak mandiri. Oleh sebab itu, orang tua harus melakukannya sesuai dengan tingkat usia anak-anaknya.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Friday, October 9, 2009
David livingstone
Livingstone was a Scottish missionary and one of the greatest European explorers of Africa, whose opening up the interior of the continent contributed to the 'Scramble for Africa'.
David Livingstone was born at Blantyre, south of Glasgow on 19 March 1813. At 10 he began working in the local cotton mill, with school lessons in the evenings. In 1836, he began studying medicine and theology in Glasgow and decided to become a missionary doctor. In 1841, he was posted to the edge of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. In 1845, he married Mary Moffat, daughter of a fellow missionary.
Livingstone became convinced of his mission to reach new peoples in the interior of Africa and introduce them to Christianity, as well as freeing them from slavery. It was this which inspired his explorations. In 1849 and 1851, he travelled across the Kalahari, on the second trip sighting the upper Zambezi River. In 1842, he began a four year expedition to find a route from the upper Zambezi to the coast. This filled huge gaps in western knowledge of central and southern Africa. In 1855, Livingstone discovered a spectacular waterfall which he named 'Victoria Falls'. He reached the mouth of the Zambezi on the Indian Ocean in May 1856, becoming the first European to cross the width of southern Africa.
Returning to Britain, where he was now a national hero, Livingstone did many speaking tours and published his best-selling 'Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa' (1857). He left for Africa again in 1858, and for the next five years carried out official explorations of eastern and central Africa for the British government. His wife died of malaria in 1862, a bitter blow and in 1864 he was ordered home by a government unimpressed with the results of his travels.
At home, Livingstone publicised the horrors of the slave trade, securing private support for another expedition to central Africa, searching for the Nile's source and reporting further on slavery. This expedition lasted from 1866 until Livingstone's death in 1873. After nothing was heard from him for many months, Henry Stanley, an explorer and journalist, set out to find Livingstone. This resulted in their meeting near Lake Tanganyika in October 1871 during which Stanley uttered the famous phrase: 'Dr Livingstone I presume?' With new supplies from Stanley, Livingstone continued his efforts to find the source of the Nile. His health had been poor for many years and he died on 1 May 1873. His body was taken back to England and buried in Westminster Abbey.
David Livingstone was born at Blantyre, south of Glasgow on 19 March 1813. At 10 he began working in the local cotton mill, with school lessons in the evenings. In 1836, he began studying medicine and theology in Glasgow and decided to become a missionary doctor. In 1841, he was posted to the edge of the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa. In 1845, he married Mary Moffat, daughter of a fellow missionary.
Livingstone became convinced of his mission to reach new peoples in the interior of Africa and introduce them to Christianity, as well as freeing them from slavery. It was this which inspired his explorations. In 1849 and 1851, he travelled across the Kalahari, on the second trip sighting the upper Zambezi River. In 1842, he began a four year expedition to find a route from the upper Zambezi to the coast. This filled huge gaps in western knowledge of central and southern Africa. In 1855, Livingstone discovered a spectacular waterfall which he named 'Victoria Falls'. He reached the mouth of the Zambezi on the Indian Ocean in May 1856, becoming the first European to cross the width of southern Africa.
Returning to Britain, where he was now a national hero, Livingstone did many speaking tours and published his best-selling 'Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa' (1857). He left for Africa again in 1858, and for the next five years carried out official explorations of eastern and central Africa for the British government. His wife died of malaria in 1862, a bitter blow and in 1864 he was ordered home by a government unimpressed with the results of his travels.
At home, Livingstone publicised the horrors of the slave trade, securing private support for another expedition to central Africa, searching for the Nile's source and reporting further on slavery. This expedition lasted from 1866 until Livingstone's death in 1873. After nothing was heard from him for many months, Henry Stanley, an explorer and journalist, set out to find Livingstone. This resulted in their meeting near Lake Tanganyika in October 1871 during which Stanley uttered the famous phrase: 'Dr Livingstone I presume?' With new supplies from Stanley, Livingstone continued his efforts to find the source of the Nile. His health had been poor for many years and he died on 1 May 1873. His body was taken back to England and buried in Westminster Abbey.
Martin Luther King jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.
In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.
In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.
At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
In 1954, Martin Luther King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank.
In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.
At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
The World's Oledst Primary Student
Kenya’s oldest pupil, Kimani Nganga Maruge, has died in Nairobi aged 90. The great-grandfather held the Guinness World Record for being the oldest person to start primary school, at the age of 84
His house in the Rift Valley was burnt down in post-election violence last year and he was later moved from a camp to an old people’s home in the capital. Despite the disruption, Mr. Maruge kept hard at his studies and had two years left to finish his primary education.
Mr. Maruge, a veteran of the Mau Mau independence movement, never had the opportunity to go to school when he was younger. The father-of-five said he wanted to learn how to read the Bible for himself and he was also suspicious that he might not have been getting his full pension so he was also keen to study maths.
In 2004 he enrolled at Kapkenduywa primary school, in Eldoret, a year after the Kenyan government introduced free primary schooling. With one of the best attendance records he was made a prefect in the school. Two of his 30 grandchildren, who had eventually wanted to complete a veterinary diploma.
‘Courageous’
Mumbi Kamuri, head of Cheshire Homes in Kenya where Mr. Maruge spent the last year of his life, told the BBC he was delighted to his studies right to the end. Even after he was diagnosed with cancer in February he asked for the teachers to teach him at home, she said.
“He was a very courageous man,” she said. “Even if you don’t see it through to the end, you will still have achieved something.”
In 2005, travelled to the United States where he called on world leaders attending a summitto make education for the poor in priority. The BBC’s Will Ross in Nairobi says he will be remembered by many people as an inspirational figure that brought new meaning to the phrase, “it’s never too late.”
Saturday, September 5, 2009
Pembuat Genius Google
Di zaman sekarang siapa yang tidak kenal dengan nama Google? Hampir seluruh dunia memakai situs ini untuk mencari informasi yang terdapat di Internet.
Penemu dari situs ternama ini adalah Lawrence (Larry) Page dan Sergey Brin. Kedua orang ini bertemu di Stanford University waktu mereka sedang belajar teknik komputer bersama.
Mereka lalu mendirikan sebuah proyek bersama yang bernama,sergeyandlarry, proyek inilah yang kemudian akan melahirkan Google. Ide yang sederhana untuk mendalami informasi hasil hasil riset yang sudah dituangkan Internet.
Sebelum Google muncul, sangat susah untuk mencari informasi yang relevan. Di tahun 1998 Google muncul dan kini dianggap mesin penacari terbaik di dunia. Tetapi jalan menuju sukses bagi mereka tidak gamapang, mereka harus meningalakan kuliah pada program doktor komputer di Stanford. Tetapi dengan keputusan itu mereka telah mendirikan sebuah perusahaan yang berhasil. Kini, 300 juta orang membuka Google setiap hari, dan bisa digunakan di daerah mana saja dengan askses ke 88 bahasa. Keberhasilan Google ada dalam kesederhanaanya (simplicity), yang memudahkan orang untuk mengakses informasi yang relevan untuk perncarian mereka.
Penemu dari situs ternama ini adalah Lawrence (Larry) Page dan Sergey Brin. Kedua orang ini bertemu di Stanford University waktu mereka sedang belajar teknik komputer bersama.
Mereka lalu mendirikan sebuah proyek bersama yang bernama,sergeyandlarry, proyek inilah yang kemudian akan melahirkan Google. Ide yang sederhana untuk mendalami informasi hasil hasil riset yang sudah dituangkan Internet.
Sebelum Google muncul, sangat susah untuk mencari informasi yang relevan. Di tahun 1998 Google muncul dan kini dianggap mesin penacari terbaik di dunia. Tetapi jalan menuju sukses bagi mereka tidak gamapang, mereka harus meningalakan kuliah pada program doktor komputer di Stanford. Tetapi dengan keputusan itu mereka telah mendirikan sebuah perusahaan yang berhasil. Kini, 300 juta orang membuka Google setiap hari, dan bisa digunakan di daerah mana saja dengan askses ke 88 bahasa. Keberhasilan Google ada dalam kesederhanaanya (simplicity), yang memudahkan orang untuk mengakses informasi yang relevan untuk perncarian mereka.
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