Seizure symptoms in children are not always epilepsy; some are normal “seizures” and some are other seizure disorders. If these non-epileptic seizures are misdiagnosed as epilepsy, the diagnosis of epilepsy can be “broadened” causing unnecessary physical and psychological damage and financial burden to the child and parents. Many diseases or physiological phenomena manifest themselves in the form of seizures during the various periods of childhood development. (1) Neonatal period: About 50% of immature children have “periodic respiration”, which is characterized by variable respiratory rate and brief cessation, but is distinctly different from seizures in that there is no change in heart rate or skin color. Newborns who have had mild asphyxia during delivery are also prone to a “hypervigilant state” seizure, which can startle parents. The child is drowsy for a few hours without eating or drinking, and then turns hyperactive, with eyes wide open, waking for a long time and sleeping for a short time, which is often misdiagnosed as a seizure. (2) Infancy: When the child is a few months old, a type of convulsion called “tremor” is often misdiagnosed as epilepsy. The child has small, rhythmic jerks or twitches of the jaw or limbs. This is a normal overreaction of a sleeping newborn to sudden awakening stimuli and diaper changes. There is no abnormality other than tremors, and when used to gently press on the trembling limb, the convulsions are significantly reduced or stopped, which is distinctly different from seizures. Non-epileptic seizures in infancy and early childhood also include breath-holding seizures, non-epileptic tonic-like seizures, and affective cross-leg rubbing movement seizures. (3) Preschool and school age: there will be more forms of nonepileptic seizures that need to be differentiated from epilepsy, such as sleep myoclonus, episodic sleeping sickness, nightmares, nocturnal sleepwalking, multiple tics, and syncope, migraine, and hysteria.