Traditional fishing lives in limitations environment, it causing them had to get along with imprisonment poverty. As a result, they pay less attention to the family education. Their children grow up with deficient character. To anticipate and to cope with these circumstances requires a family education model to form their character building to prevent children's destructive behavior from an early age to this society. The purpose of the first stage (1)/year study resulted in a socioeconomic description in relation to family education needs. It then produced a conceptual model of family education designed in a family education draft that embodies the values of exemplary character and virtues rooted to religion, culture, citizenship and manners that are easily understood and well applied to the fishermen's families. The research is carried out in three (3) stages/year. The procedures include: 1) Identification of the socio-economic condition of the family, 2) the pattern of family education, 3) the parent's role to form early childhood character building and 4) the family's educational needs to form early childhood character building to obtain good personality. The results showed 1) that poor families in the fishing village have undergone many changes in terms of social economy. This happens because of government intervention that has provided adequate facilities for fishermen, such as soft loans to own a boat. 2) The pattern of family education and the role of parent's changes. 3) A better life makes parents pay more attention to their child's education in general and character education in particular. 4) Viewed from the parent's educational background which is generally low, it requires a guidance to provide the parents needs to understand and apply the character education of the early childhood character appropriately. The guidance contains the information about the character building regards to some values of emotional, social and intellectual adjusted to the parent's ability and family patterns.
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