The Role Of Mothers In Parenting Childrens Health Through Folk Songs Didong Doah
Frida Deliana (a), Robert Sibarani (b)*

(a) Post-Graduate Department in Linguistics, Faculty of Cultural Science, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia;
(b) Faculty of Cultural Science, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia
*rs.sibarani[at]usu.ac.id

Abstract

Objective: The objective of this research is to describe (1) how the role of mothers in parenting their children about education and health in preparing the childrens health physically and mentally, and (2) how mothers use folk songs Didong Doah in their upbringing activities.
Method: This research employed a qualitative paradigm method with the ethnography model. It also used the anthropolinguistic approach with the analytical parameters, namely interconnection, valuability, and sustainability.
Results: The parenting patterns of mothers toward children are carried out by preparing education about social, health, and cultural values, and norms for their children starting from the age of five years. It is done by singing the folk songs didong doah with the text of the song which contains teaching about social, health, and cultural values, and norms when the children went to sleep.
Conclusion: Mothers play an essential role in preparing their childrens education and health in the family. The folk songs Dong Doah has functioned as a medium or means used by mothers in their parenting practices.

Keywords: The Role of Mother, Parenting Pattern, childrens Health, Didong Doah

Topic: Women and workplace: how to balance career and household responsibility