Peran Orang Tua Dalam Memenuhi Kebutuhan Gizi Anak Dengan Perkembangan Anak Usia Pra Sekolah Di Tk Negeri Pembina Ampenan

Introduction : Nutritional problems that arise in the preschool age group include rejection of food, difficulty eating, only a few types of food eaten, the habit of consuming snacks between main meals. Children who have a poor nutritional state will tend to be disturbed in their development. Based on 2015 data from 105 pre-school children at Pembina Ampenan Kindergarten, 21 of them experienced less than optimal fine motor and artistic development compared to other students. Objective : This study aims to determine the relationship between the role of parents in meeting the nutritional needs of children with the development of preschool children in the Pembina State Kindergarten of Ampenan. Method : This research design is descriptive of the correlation with the population of all preschool age children in the Pembina Ampenan State Kindergarten. purposive that the number of samples obtained was 86 people. The instruments used were the Developmental Pre-screening Questionnaire and Questionnaire (KPSP). Data analysis was done by Chi-Square test. Results : The results showed that there was a relationship between the role of parents in meeting the nutritional needs of children and the development of preschool-aged children at the Pembina Ampenan State Kindergarten, this was evidenced by the p value of 0.000 with a significant level of 0.05 (p < ). Conclusion : parents play a good role in meeting the nutritional needs of children, so the development of children will be according to their age.