LITERATUS literature for social impact and cultural studies e-ISSN: 2686-5009 The Role of Parental Communication in Shaping Children's Character Education (Children's Study at Rumi TPST Bantargebang, Sumur Batu) Heriyanti Esa Unggul University, Jakarta heriyanti@esaunggul.ac.id Safiani A Faaroek Esa Unggul University, Jakarta heriyanti@esaunggul.ac.id Ratnawati Susanto Esa Unggul University, Jakarta heriyanti@esaunggul.ac.id Abstract Parents include fathers and mothers who are entrusted with the process of God Almighty a child, children are expected to be human beings with character such as morality, good speech, courtesy, tolerance and can be communicative. Character education of the child is obtained in the home environment, school and society. Parents are the first teachers of children in getting character education, children will imitate the good and bad habits of parents because in essence children will imitate what they see. Children in the Bantargebang TPST environment, Sumur Batu are some of the children who are disadvantaged in education. The majority of children do not go to school due to economic constraints that cause children to not get formal education. Most children who are in a healthy environment will make the child healthy, while the child who is in a bad environment will make the child will be bad. This is what motivates RUMI (rumi reading house) in providing knowledge to children in the Bantargebang TPST environment, Sumur Batu so that children can know things that are justified and not. This research method is a qualitative case study, with the aim of determining the phenomena that occur in the Bantargebang TPST environment, Sumur Batu. There are five character educations studied including the character of religious values, honesty, tolerance, discipline and communicative. Parents at TPST Bantargebang, Sumur Batu have carried out a communication role in character education for children in their daily lives but are not understood by children, this is due to limited communication skills, and parents' knowledge in providing understanding of character education. The existence of RUMI according to parents can help understanding children's character education in everyday life. Character education is important to be given to children as early as possible because character education in early childhood is a stage of formation, if this is ignored it will endanger the future of the child, nation and state. Keywords: role, parental communication and character education INTRODUCTION From birth the child spends a lot of his time with parents from opening his eyes or waking up to going to bed. Children are God's gift to parents that is very precious, children need someone who is willing to spend their time providing guidance, a sense of security and comfort. As time the child grows up, parents give lessons on how children can express their wishes by communicating through saying, parents will teach children in the use of a word and string words into expressions of desire with these words. As the child gets older, he begins to gain a lot of knowledge and intelligence given by parents. The learning given by parents is increasingly diverse such as how to make a child a kind, polite and diligent child, the child also learns from parents how to yell, rebuke, beat from parents that children learn about life. Parents can be said to be the ones who know the nature and character of the child best. Every child has a different development – differently there are children who dare to speak in public, and on the contrary there are children who study hard but talk less. The child can be said to be someone who has a unique and interesting personality, parents have a role in maximizing abilities, trying to teach, reduce children's weaknesses and directing children's talents or abilities well in order to succeed in the course of their lives. The optimal personal,