This paper is trying to present the role of the family in educating preschoolers. The first part of the paper refers to defining family, its function and the characteristics of good parenthood which is a condition for child’s healthy and encouraging development as an individual person. Other parts of this paper are focused on the influence of different factors and the parents’ role and parents’ style on the development of family community and on the development of a preschooler. The family as a primary community has the important role in a child’s life and in time it has passed through numerous transformations. Inside the family, the child gains primer social experiences and becomes conscious of itself and that’s why it is important that modern parents not only adjust to the environment but also to adjust the environment to child’s successful development, especially in preschool age. To be a parent means to accept a new life role which carries different conditions and in preschool age a strong feeling of affiliation and acceptance, feeling safety and the development of social skills needs to be ensured to children of preschool age.