Parenting Patterns of Parents with Stunting Incidents in Early Childhood. Parenting
is the way parents interact between parents and children, which consists of the way parents care
for, look after, educate, guide, train, help and discipline children. Stunting is a condition of failure
to thrive in children under five (babies under five years) resulting from chronic malnutrition so
that children are too short for their age. The purpose of this study was to find out the parenting
style of parents for children who are stunted and what impact this has on stunted children. This
study uses a qualitative descriptive method with the approach taken in this study, namely a case
study. In this study, the informant 1 was a 28-year-old mother who had the last educational
background in junior high school, the mother's occupation and informant 2 were midwives with
a sample of S's children who were stunted. The results of this study are that poor parenting
determines the incidence of stunting for children and the factors that influence poor parenting
are education, knowledge, income, number of family members and parenting styles in the family.
Keywords: parenting style, stunting, Early childhood