THE EXPERIENCES OF GRANDPARENTING IN INDONESIA
Abstract
This research aims to explore the way
grandmother’s struggle hard in educating her
grandchildren, who are entrusted to them by their
biological parents. This research is a field research with a
phenomenological approach. The research location was in
the Puring, Kebumen, Central Java, with three
grandmothers who are considered successful in raising and
educating their biological grandchildren. The three
grandmothers were taken into a sample based on
appropriate criteria and were deemed to be successful in
applying mental resilience education to their biological
grandchildren. Grandchildren who are used as objects of
research are also those who are considered successful in
implementing mental resilience education imposed by their
grandmothers. The findings of this study stated that from
these three grandmothers in Puring Kebumen, all of them
had concepts and actions that were appropriate and clear to
be applied to their grandchildren. Some of the findings
include the act of not spoiling grandchildren except in a
natural way, obliging grandchildren to solve their problems
without always being assisted by grandmothers, providing
love and care for grandchildren appropriately, introducing
grandchildren to the real struggle of life such as trading or
selling, and also obliging grandchildren to live
independently and fulfill their obligations.