ABSTRACT
In order to sensitize mothers in promoting their children's good nutritional status by a nutritional education system, an inquiry realised during the summer of 1990 about 100 mothers of children under 5 years of age permitted the evaluation of the level of mothers knowledge and practices. It was noticed: The non agreement of the mothers impression with the reality of their children's nutritional status [30%]. The uselessness, according to mothers, of continuing the monitoring of growth chart after one year [30%], and after two years [28%]. Weight gain by weighing represented only one among many other indicators of good growth. Concerning the means of acquiring child's good growth, although the majority of mothers stated the illnesses [88,6%] and the insufficient nutrition [84,5] as the main causes of bad growth few of them mentioned vaccinations [4%] and prolonged breastfeeding [5%], no mother stated the pregnants and the nurses good nutrition, nor progressive weaning; The unrecognition of the usefulness[67%], the interest, and the way of using the growth chart. Sixty-one per cent [61%] of mothers did not weigh their children regularly. Even in the case of weighing, the mother was given neither explications nor information's concerning the nutritional status of their child professionals of health. Mothers education in growth monitoring domain is a necessity. Improvement of the communication's quality between professionals of health and mothers is an urgency