THE IMPORTANCE OF TENDER LOVING CARE FOR FOUNDING
THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN

SitiAsiyah¹*, Dewi Retno Suminar3, Moersintowarti B. Narendra4,Shrimarti Rukmini Devy5
Page No. 3-13

Objectives: Tender Loving Care (TLC) or caring with gentle loving care is very important given to
children especially at the age of 0 - 5 years (Golden Period). However, not many parents
understand that TLC is very important to optimize the growth and development of children. This
article aims to examine the importance of Tender Loving Care (TLC) in founding of children's
development, through literature studies from several journals and resource books. Method: The
method used in writing this article was to review some journals and complete from various sources
that already exist, then analyzed from various points of view. Several studies found several factors
that caused neglected in founding of development, there were: busyness and negligence of parents,
family disharmonization, and diversioncaregiving in institution. Conclusion:The impact of
neglecting children's development couldmade: children's growth was not monitored properly, often
got health problems, and tend to had bad behavior or psychic. This conditions require parental
involvement in caregiving that could be given by attention, comfortable, warmth, and protection to
their children. Loving care of their parent which form of care, responsibility, respect, and
knowledge wouldmadechildren feltbeen loved and cared, so they could growth with good psychic
and emotional condition. Thus, founding of children growth and development should be done by
fulfilling their need on basic health and nutrition, also character building through by friendly
education.
Keywords : Tender loving care, founding, growth, parenting, child