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Currently, the use of smartphones cannot be avoided by early childhood, therefore parents must have good knowledge about the use of smartphones and a good attitude towards the use of smartphones in children where parents have a very important role in supervising children when playing smartphones. Objective: to determine the relationship between parents' knowledge and attitudes towards the use of smartphones with the development of children aged 4-6 years at Canggai Putri Kindergarten, Karimun Regency. Methods: This study used a quantitative design with a cross-sectional approach on 45 respondents using purposive sampling technique and analyzed using Chi-Square. Results: Parents' knowledge of the use of smartphones in children in the good category was 28 respondents (62.2%), parents' attitudes towards the use of smartphones in children were positive as many as 24 respondents (53.3%), children who were in accordance with behavioral and emotional development were 26 children (57.8%). The results of the analysis using Chi Square show that there is no relationship between parental knowledge about the use of smartphones and the development of children aged 4-6 years at Canggai Putri Kindergarten, Karimun Regency (p value = 0.257) and there is a relationship between parental attitudes towards the use of smartphones and the development of children aged 4-6 years at Canggai Putri Kindergarten, Karimun Regency (p value = 0.012), (OR = 4.875). Conclusion: there is a relationship between parental attitudes towards the use of smartphones with the development of children aged 4-6 years at Canggai Putri Kindergarten, Karimun Regency stress and diet with the incidence of hypertension in the karimun tin devotion hospital. Suggestion: In this case, parents should be able to have a good attitude in terms of using smartphones in children, it is intended that children have a limit on both the time and type of application used in order to keep children from becoming addicted to smartphones.

There are still many cases of verbal abuse of children by parents. Verbal abuse can have serious impact. One of the causes of verbal abuse is the lack of parental knowledge. This study aims to determine the effect of educational videos on parents knowledge about preventing verbal abuse in children. The design of this study was a quasi-experimental pretest-post test with control group design. The sampling technique used stratified random sampling with a total of 46 respondents in Kalikesur Village. The instrument was adopted from Mysa (2016). Data analysis used Chi-square and Wilcoxon test. The mean age of respondents in the intervention group was 40.17 years old, while in the median in the control group was 35 years old. The majority of respondents in this study were women, elementary school, had two or less children, married, and income below the Banyumas UMK. The results of the study there was no difference in the pretest level of parental knowledge about preventing verbal abuse in children between the two groups (p=0.131) but there was a difference in the posttest (p=0.022). There is a difference between the pretest and posttest levels of parental knowledge in the intervention group (p=0.000), but there was no difference in the control group (p=0.133). There is an effect of educational videos on parents knowledge about preventing verbal abuse in children.

Toilet training is a way to train children aged 1-3 years in controlling defecation and urination activities properly and correctly. According to the 2019 National Household Health Survey (SKRT), it is estimated that the number of toddlers who have difficulty controlling defecation and urination (bedwetting) at the age of up to pre-school reaches 75 million children. This phenomenon is triggered by many things, such as parents' lack of knowledge about how to train defecation and toileting, the use of compresses and many others (Riblat, 2017). The introduction and implementation of toilet training in children is very important. Knowledge is one of the factors that can influence the success of toilet training implementation. This study aims to determine the relationship between parental knowledge about toilet training, with the success in its application in pre-school children in kindergarten. Anugrah Harapan Bangsa Marelan in 2023, using the type of correlation descriptive research. The population and sample in this study were all parents who had pre-school age children as many as 130 people. This study used a total sampling method, instrument in the form of a knowledge questionnaire and the successful implementation of toilet training. The results of this study were tested using the chi-square test, the results obtained p value = 0.000 (<0.05) indicates that parental knowledge has a relationship with the successful implementation of toilet training in children. From the results of the study it can be concluded that the better the parents' knowledge, the better the results of the implementation of toilet training. For this reason, it is recommended that parents maintain and improve their knowledge about toilet training so that they can provide good and correct toilet training implementation results for their children. This can be done for example by attending health education counseling events, especially in the field of toilet training.