The role of parents in toddlers (12 – 36 month) is urgently needed, ignorance and lack of information often leads parents to mistaken parenting, this may lead to trauma in children and affect their growth and development. Anticipatory guidance is an important and necessary guidance to parents to assist in addressing the problems that may occur in every phase of child growth and development. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of health aducation about anticipatory guidance for toddler on mother knowledge in ngemplak kartasura village. This type of research was quantitative research using pre-experiment design and one group pre and post test design. The samples in this study were 52 mothers with toddler and lived in Ngemplak Kartasura village with sampling technique using proportional stratified random sampling. The research instrument used power point health education media, leaflet and knowledge questionnaire. The data analysis used paired t-test. The result of paired t-test obtained value tcount = -19,637 and p-value = 0,001. The conclusion of this research is existence influence of health education anticipatory guidance for toddler on mother knowledge in Ngemplak Kartasura village
