ABSTRACT Background: The weaning period is a crucial time in an infant’s life. We aimed to study the pattern of the chil-dren’s weaning, age, causes, child's problems of weaning, weaning food, sources of information about wean- ing, and the process of weaning itself among children of Arar, Saudi Arabia.Methodology: This was a cross-sectional study conducted among 452 mothers during the period from September 2017 to March 2018. Mothers were randomly selected from the attendees of the female side of six selected primary health care centers in the city using a systematic random sampling technique (every fourth mother). Results: The majority of children (34.7%) were weaned at 13–24 months, (34.3...