The Sun Shine

by Azys Syaiful Anwar

Folklore is kind of tales which is related to culture and traditional values. Fable, fairy tales or short story may be listed as folklore. Folklore is usually used to convey some wise message while entertaining children. Since its educative purpose, folklore still exists and even popular for children. It is mostly told before children having sleep or in other occasion. Through folklore, children will intensionally acquire more morality values. The main message of tales is that justice and goodness will always win. 

 

Folklore may give impact for children. It can be a media of conveying the basic of good behavior because it is fun and doesn't force children to do something. It is naturally taught them how they should be through some message implied there. The character of the tales may give perfect example of the effect of acting bad or good. In the 'Malin Kundang' tales, for example, children will know the bad effect of mutiny the parents, that is becoming statue as what happened to Malin Kundang. 

 

In addition, folklore is easily persuading children to do good things. Some say that folklore, or fairy tales can improve the intelligence, emotional and spiritual value of children. Moreover, it can develop children's morality that may lead them to be able to determine the negative or positive of attitudes, values or behavior. It directly influence the way of children solving problems. Besides , it educates children to be more wise and respect to their surrounding, such as their friend, parents and their environment. 

 

Folklore also emphasizes on the children imagination. I have ever heard that imagination is more powerful than the reality. Imagination may important to children development. It can improve the intelligence and give some good values to children. Through folklore, parents can teach children responsibility of becoming social creatures. Morality, religious, cultural values that may implied in the folklore giving them perfect modeling of becoming a real human.

By Azys Syaiful Anwar

Since it provides calories, vitamins, nutrients and others important substances, Food is considered as the essential need of human. It helps people to get some energy to do their activities. However, not all kind of food is good for human. Some of them may consist of dangerous additional substances, such as preservative, dye, and many more. It doesn’t matter when the additional substance used is really made for food only. Unfortunately, some of food producers do not pay attention to their consumers’ health. They prefer using cheap non-food additional substances which may not fulfill the health requirement to reach more benefit.

Just for moments ago, there are many issues of unsafe food which is exists in the community, in this case is in Indonesia. The use of borax, clothes dye and others chemical substances are massively done by some food sellers. As a result, there are many dangerous food distributed in the public. They are not only packaged but also fast food product, such as ‘bakso’, ‘mie ayam’, and many more. In addition, some sellers also specify their target consumer to school students. In this way, the sellers will achieve more profit, but our kids will be endangered.

So, what kind of foods which are usually sold in some school in Indonesia? They may snack, fast food, and some drinks. However, is it really safe? Is it passed BPOM (Standard Food and Medicine Determiner of Indonesia) filter. This is the main question which may emerge in our mind.

Non-Safe food criteria:

Since there are many dangerous food sold in school, parents should wisely give their children understanding about how to choose better food to consume. Besides, parents can give delicious healthy food to be brought by their children to school. This is aimed to reduce their kids’ expenses in food. I think it will be better rather than giving them more pocket money.