@book{repository69, year = {2015}, publisher = {The 1 ST International Seminar Of Early Childhood Care And Education}, title = {INTENSE COMMUNICATION FOR BABY'S GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT PROCESS ACTIVITY USING WHATSAPP MEDIA FOR CHILD DAY CARE}, month = {June}, url = {http://repository.uhamka.ac.id/id/eprint/69/}, isbn = {978-602342-045-2}, abstract = {As a social media, WhatsApp is a messenger application that allows us to send files, messages, pictures, videos and online chatting as if Blackberry Messenger, but WhatsApp is more popular in iPhone users. WhatsApp first release is on iPhone by Apple, and in its development, now it's available in Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, and also Symbian version. It's also the most downloaded application in the world these days, especially for smartphone users. To operate WhatsApp, it needs no credit like text messaging, because it only needs internet data ( EDGE/3G ) or wifi. WhatsApp user's contact can be automatically detected on our smartphone devices, if our phone contacts are also using WhatsApp Messenger. The purpose of this writing paper is to give instant comprehension about using WhatsApp media on baby's growth and development activities which babysitted on child day care. True, baby is inseparable from how their childhood educational proceed in the family. Every parents are given mandate to take care the birth and first steps of human lives. Through parent's hand, every helpless little babies are gently loved with warmth, given nutritions, and also breastfeeding, etc. In the other side, for the sake of decent living and survival, young mothers have a limited time so that they need to put their babies in the child day care. Several notable ideas in this writing can be referral to many parties. Especially about the importance of WhatsApp as a media for child day care supervision. WhatsApp is used to create and establish communication between parents and the day care. Parents usually left their babies from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. This day care is truly an answer to parent's limited time for taking care of their children. In this writing, the writer situated the WhatsApp Messenger as an effective means with hope that it is capable to bridge the communication between day care and parents so that lessons taught to the babies in the day care can be shared to their parents, so children can continue the lessons at home. Also through WhatsApp media, teachers and parents can share plenty information about children, either in education, health, as well in parenting.}, author = {Ihsana El Khuluqo, Ihsana El Khuluqo} }