Health is an important factor in ensuring quality of life. One of the ways people can preserve their health is by practicing healthy eating habits. This work looks at the role of parents as educators in encouraging the development of healthy eating habits in children from a pedagogical perspective. This work examined parents' perceptions of their knowledge and attitudes about healthy eating, their eating habits, and the habits of their children. The results of a questionnaire conducted on a sample of 27 parents of children aged 3 to 15 showed that parents have a good knowledge of healthy eating habits and consider it important. Still, a quarter of them think that sources of knowledge are sometimes unavailable to them. The vast majority agree that the mother is the most influential in defining children's nutrition, and both mothers and fathers believe that their role is extremely important in encouraging healthy eating habits and that their eating habits influence the development of their children's eating habits. In general, it was shown that parents in this research raise their children following the instructions on healthy eating from the literature: children eat breakfast regularly, have no problems with overeating or malnutrition, have a varied and nutritious diet, and similar data were obtained from the analysis of parents' eating habits. In addition, parents mostly prepare meals at home and children sometimes participate in the preparation themselves. However, this research revealed that slightly more than half of the parents were not satisfied with the quality of their children's nutrition after starting school. The reason for this has not yet been determined, but the assumption is that such data could be the result of peer influence and children's independence in choosing nutrition in primary and secondary school. In order to preserve the health of children even after starting school, children should be taught healthy eating habits from an early age, and the consumption of nutritionally rich meals should be encouraged at school.