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Parents are the most important and influential persons in the life of a child. Children depend on their parents to protect and take care of them while parents monitor and endorse their safety and well-being. Parenting plays a pivotal role in the upbringing of a child. It is an art which involves boosting and assisting the physical, emotional, social, intellectual development of the child right from birth. Ayurveda considered as the basic life science lays special emphasis on parenting. The lines �Taccha nityam prayunjeeta Swasthyam yen anuvartate� from the treatise Caraka Samhita points out the fact that nutrition forms the basic foundation of health. This principle indicates the importance of balanced diet and also emphasizes that one has to inculcate healthy eating habits right from childhood. The importance of child nutrition and its detrimental effects are well explained in Kashyapa Samhita. Healthy development of the child does not wholly rest with the parents but the task of ensuring the same lies with the social community as well. Urbanization which is rapidly spreading throughout developing countries is ensuing changing proportion of urban to rural population. Substantially, it is the urban poor who are at the interface between underdevelopment and industrialization. Society benefits socially and economically from a healthy and thriving child. Accomplishment of the same is achieved by serving support to parents through programs and services of Organizations or Government at community level, state and central levels.