The Importance of Traditional Games to Improve Children’s Interpersonal Skill

Social development is one of the capabilities possessed by early child is influenced by factor how child relationship or relation with environment.The child's personal relationships are factors that will have an impact on the child's social development.Various efforts should be made to improve children's social skills.Especially in the use of traditional games that are full of the meaning of local cultural values, in addition to stimulating early childhood social abilities.This study aims to obtain information about the importance of traditional games as a medium of stimulation of personal relationships of children aged 5-6 years.The method used in this study is a survey with a descriptive type of survey approach.Technique of data analysis in this research is descriptive analysis using mean, media, mode, percentage and grouping based on interval data.The results showed that 94% of learning in kindergarten had not used traditional games to stimulate children's personal relationship abilities.While 45% of learning activities that use traditional games and even then to stimulate the motor skills of children.Most of the lessons use the methods already contained in the curriculum and previous teaching references.