<p>Toothache and sore mouth often occur on pre-schoolage children, this is caused consume of sweet foods. The<br />irregular habit of brushing teeth can lead to tooth decay and can interfere with daily activities. This condition is<br />due to a lack of motivation (support) or parents guidance in doing or habituate brushing teeth to children. The<br />purpose of this study was to determine the effect of parental motivation to tooth brushing habits in pre-school age<br />children in kindergarten Pertiwi Village of Mancar District of PeteronganJombang.Analytic study design with<br />cross sectional approach. The population in this study was parents who had pre-school age children with a<br />sample as many as 34 respondents, sampling was using proportional random sampling technique.<br />Independetvariabel is parental motivation and dependent variabel is tooth brushing habits in pre-school.Data<br />collection was using questionnaires, data analysis was using Spearman's rank with an error rate 0,05. From the<br />results obtained parents’ motivation to habituate strong teeth as much as 29.4% (10), normal as much as 41,2%<br />(14), weak was 29,4% (10). The habit of brushing teeth on in good pre-school children as much as 58.8% (20),<br />bad as much as 41.2% (14).and then the results test of Spearman's rank showed that the P-value of 0.000 (0.000<br />&lt;0.05), obtained correlation coefficient of 0.779, p&lt; 0,05 then H1 is accepted.The conclusion of this research<br />had effect of parental motivation to tooth brushing habits in pre-school children in kindergarten Pertiwi village<br />mancar, district PeteronganJombang .</p><p><br />Keywords : Parents motivation, tooth brushing habits.</p>