diff --git a/guides/endpoint.md b/guides/endpoint.md
index b21de25999..c0dc01dfee 100644
--- a/guides/endpoint.md
+++ b/guides/endpoint.md
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ defmodule Hello.Application do
     #...
 
     children = [
-      supervisor(HelloWeb.Endpoint, []),
+      HelloWeb.Endpoint
     ]
 
     opts = [strategy: :one_for_one, name: Hello.Supervisor]
diff --git a/guides/phoenix_mix_tasks.md b/guides/phoenix_mix_tasks.md
index c0171776bc..e5fed5f894 100644
--- a/guides/phoenix_mix_tasks.md
+++ b/guides/phoenix_mix_tasks.md
@@ -713,13 +713,14 @@ We certainly should follow the instructions and add our new repo to our supervis
 ```elixir
 . . .
 children = [
-  # Start the endpoint when the application starts
-  supervisor(HelloWeb.Endpoint, []),
   # Start the Ecto repository
-  worker(Hello.Repo, []),
+  Hello.Repo,
+  # Start the endpoint when the application starts
+  HelloWeb.Endpoint,
+  # Starts a worker by calling: Hello.Worker.start_link(arg)
+  # {Hello.Worker, arg},
   # Here you could define other workers and supervisors as children
-  # worker(Hello.Worker, [arg1, arg2, arg3]),
-  worker(OurCustom.Repo, []),
+  OurCustom.Repo
 ]
 . . .
 ```
diff --git a/lib/phoenix/endpoint.ex b/lib/phoenix/endpoint.ex
index be35cc79a0..073dc874e0 100644
--- a/lib/phoenix/endpoint.ex
+++ b/lib/phoenix/endpoint.ex
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ defmodule Phoenix.Endpoint do
   to the supervision tree in generated applications. Endpoints can be
   added to the supervision tree as follows:
 
-      supervisor(YourApp.Endpoint, [])
+      children = [
+        YourApp.Endpoint
+      ]
 
   ### Endpoint configuration