TO grow up both physically and brains, children need a balanced nutrition. Each stage of age require a different nutrient intake as well.

Many factors affect a child's growth. One of them is enough nutrition. Adequacy of nutrition should begin even considered since the fetus is still in the womb.

The parents can control the nutrients that children get the nutrients you need according to the growth of age stages. Unfortunately, many parents do not understand this problem, so parents tend to generalize the food to all age children.In fact, each child, the age difference nutritionally different.

Nutritional requirements for children in times of growth, pre-teens, and teenagers different. Because in addition to psychological and hormonal differences are also experiencing, gender issues, young women and young men, need different nutrients and energy, also adjusted to the activity.

Usually, parents only pay attention to the nutritional intake of 5-year-old child. After that age the parent thinks the child's nutritional needs approximately the same as adults. Though not true. Each child at different stages of age also have different nutritional needs.

What is unfortunate is the parent's attention to the nutritional needs of children rather neglected as children hit school age.

It could have been caused by them because parents are busy to prepare breakfast, or a factor that came from the children themselves. There are also parents who think children over 5 years had no need of special attention to the food. This means that menus can be equated with adults at home.

Parents tend to consider nutrition for children under five years old, while children over five years tend to be neglected because the perception is wrong. Early child development is not only up to age 5 years, but until the age of 18 years.

But it was precisely the environment are important factors that could endanger the adequacy of child nutrition. For example, at school, children face a variety of 'temptations' food outside that he does not get at home. Children at this age also become voters for food, tend to eat the same food regardless of nutritional value.

Ingenuity should be used in parent for this situation, because if the parents at home are not smart sorting and selecting the appropriate menu with tastes of children, as a result the child will choose snacks outside.

This is what causes many of the vulnerabilities of nutrients, eg malnutrition or overnutrition (excess nutrients, identical with obesity).

This is where an important role in directing the child's parents to live healthy. Parents must understand that children need age-appropriate nutrition and growth of phases.

For example, in children aged 5-8 years who are in a different period of growth with the needs of children aged 9-12 years in the pre-teens and 13-18 year age into adolescence. Increasing age of the child, the opportunity to control their 100 per cent almost impossible among them the opportunity to control what they eat and give their children proper nutrition according to the needs at every stage of their age.

After two years of age, the process of developing the child grows gradually divided into the age until 5-6 years of school age 7-12 years including the existing pre-teen or pre-puberty 9-12 years, and ended with the teens or puberty at age 13-18 years.

At the age of 5-6 years, there was not much different from previous age but more to the development of cognition and social function, such as starting school and interact with the environment, the school environment.

While the pre-puberty or pre-teens (9-12 years) and puberty or adolescent (13-18 years) occurred because there was already reproductive development of organ function that produces various hormones that will prepare the maturity of reproductive function. Occurrence grow rapidly developed, as on the fetus and infant can be caused because of hormonal influences. So that would happen would change the nutritional needs of your child's diet at that time to support the physical growth and maturity of the reproductive organs.

So in fact the pre-puberty and puberty is also a crucial period in which to consider the adequacy of nutrition to sustain physical growth and maturity of reproductive organs.

As going to school at around age 5-8 years, children usually begin to recognize the various types of snacks that are not available at home. This is where the importance of parents in directing the baby to get nutrient-rich foods to support the emergence and growth, for example by giving food stock from home rather than pocket money to be used.

If you do not have time to cook, usually schools provide a catering service menu we can select with the nutrients that can be accounted for, and of course the kids liked. For children aged 9-12 years which means also the pre teens and 13-18 year age which is the youth, the parents will experience a different challenge. At these times marked by the start of the development of reproductive organs function that produces various hormones that will prepare their reproductive functions.

One of the foods that can provide nutrition for every age and every one of them is milk that plays an important role in supporting growth of 3B (body, bone, and brain). As in pre-puberty and puberty it is often overlooked, yet important as a source of milk calcium and protein. Nutrition is appropriate to their age appropriate stages to optimize child growth and development to face the challenges of the future that more and more.