Using Moving Characters Story Book (MC-Book) as a ParentsChild Interaction Media on Children Aged 7-11 Years

Dewi Melani Airlangga University ABSTRACT Childhood without playing is nothing. There are many plaything in the children life, including puppets. MC-Book is designed without story inside and many freedom characteristics which are played like doing puppets. MC-Book encourages of creating interaction between parents-child. Further, the essential meaning is later child will be able to be a good speaker, a child can build a relationship with someone easily. MC-Book not only encourages the interaction, but also inviting children to create their own story so that the children can build their imagination, improving their information cognitive process. Keyword: MC-Book, Parent-Child Interaction, Operational Concrete. Childhood without playing is nothing. For Vygotsky (1933/1967), play is important in the development of major cognitive and affective processes involve in creativity. He stated that the childs play activity is not simply a recollection of past experience, but a creative working that combines impressions and constructs from the new realities addressing the needs of the child. Through play, children develop combinatory imagination contributes to artistic and scientific creativity (Garaigordobil, 2006: 330). There are many things which the children use to play including using puppets. One way to change using puppets more interesting for children is make a book which is combination between picture as a background and puppets as the characters. With this book, the children try to make a story and do story telling. This book called Moving Characters Story Book MC-Book. Story telling is described as a tradition of using narrative to develop knowledge. Several storytelling methodologies exist. In its simple form, a story can be introduced and reflefcted upon. Benefits of storytelling include increased understanding of information through personalization, increase critical thinking skills, creation of a context through which meaning and connections are established, increased respect for

fellow studentsexperiences through the creation of cognitive and emotional connections, a techique for problem solving and skill development, and the ability to bring into view difference and injustice. MC-Book is designed without story inside, this encourages the parents and their children to make their own story. They can use the freedom characters or separet figures from that book, so the both the parents and their children can act as a different characters. They can make their own story which connected with their experiences in daily life. Why building an interactions is important? For Vygotsky (1933/1967), play is always social, symbolic creativity. Shared book reading or parent-child reading interactions is an important event in young childrens lives because of its positive influence on childrens language and literacy development (Justice&Kadarevak, 2003). Studies of typical child development have found that through frequent adult-child reading experiences, children increase their vocabulary, develop complex syntax, and acquire print awareness skills (Crowe, 2000). Storybook reading interactions are critically important to helping children develop strong language and literacy skills. Research indicates that parent-child storybook reading is among the most important activities for enhancing young childrens language abilities and skills needed for literacy skills (Crowe, 2000) and parent-child interactions appear to be a major stimulus to the development of early reading skills (Teale, Hieber, & Chittenden, 1987). Can be drawn a conclusion from the above explanation that MC-Book is not only a toy but also a media parent-child interaction. Conclusion There are many kinds of toy including puppets. MC-Book encourage the children to make a story by themselves. There are many benefits of storytelling, storytelling can increased understanding of information through personalization, increase critical thinking skills, creation of a context through which meaning and connections are established, increased respect for fellow students experiences through the creation of cognitive and emotional connections, a technique for

problem solving , improve of skill development, and increase the ability to bring into view difference and injustice. MC-Book was not only designed for a toy, but also was designed as a media parent-child interaction.

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