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  • This study is to determine the effectiveness of children's learning time when the parents take over the role of the teacher as a controller of children's learning at home. This study uses a quantitative approach, the type of survey research. The sample of this study consisted of 15 teachers and 150 students, 70 students aged 4-5 years old and 80 students aged 5-6 years, from 15 kindergartens in Makassar. The data analysis used quantitative descriptive. The results show that the children's effective learning time during the COVID-19 pandemic has decreased significantly by 200 percent from the average 900 minutes of learning time per week in direct learning to 300 minutes in online learning or a decrease of 66% in learning time. The change in effective learning time was due to an adjustment in the government’s learning from home policies, which impacted the unpreparedness of schools in implementing the online learning system. Support for human resources, especially teachers' ICT skills and the opportunity for parents to become children's learning companions, is deficient. Another obstacle is the limited availability of school infrastructure and parental support for online learning.