C Children at preschool age usually experience psychic development to be more independent, autonomous and can interact with their environment, and can more express their emotions. In addition, children of that age also tend to enjoy exploring with new things. The typical developmental traits that form this also affect the child's diet. Preschoolers are those aged between 3-6 years. At this time the child experiencing the process of dietary changes where children in general have difficulty to eat. Difficulty eating in children has an adverse effect, for the child itself. These adverse effects can include inappropriate weight gain, nutritional deficiencies, and reduced variation in child feeding intake. Difficulty eating in the long term can also cause failure to grow in children and delay in growth and development of children. Several factors can trigger the emergence of difficult to eat behavior, one of the triggers is difficult to eat is mother's parenting. The study was conducted to determine the relationship of mother's parenting pattern with difficult eating behavior in preschool children. Methods The study used observational studies with cross sectional or cross sectional approach with the number of study participants as many as 280 respondents who have preschool age children in 8 kindergartens in Grogol Petamburan Subdistrict. Data were collected by interview using a mother's parenting questionnaire to assess the parenting and questionnaire of difficult eating behaviors. The variables studied were maternal age, last education, parenting, and difficult eating behavior in children. Data analysis was done univariat and bivariate using ChiSquare test which then processed with level of significance 0,05. The result of analysis between mother parenting pattern with feeding behavior in kindergarten students with Chi Square test showed there was significant relation (p = 0,000). The conclusions of this study indicate that there is a relationship between mother's parenting patterns with eating behavior in preschoolers.