The objective of this thesis is to determine the reasons the examined group of parents whose children have taken up swimming as a sport activity give for choosing this particular sport and to establish their expectations. A questionnaire was given to a group consisting of 67 examinees, 19 fathers and 48 mothers of children athletes and it was used to determine parents' motives and expectations from their children's swimming accomplishments. The reasons parents give for getting their children involved in the activity of swimming is health, motor development and socialization. It is important to them that their children are not at home staring at computer and TV screens, and that they develop work habits and learn to organize their free time. The main descriptive inidicators were determined, correlation matrix was used to establish the level of coherence between defined statements, and t test was used to determine differences between average results (replies to every statement) given by fathers and mothers. T- test indicated that the statistically significant difference in results in one variable between male and female parents was not random. There are a number of factors affecting the decision on selecting the appropriate sport for a child, and one of them is definitely child's age. Children can take up certain sports such as swimming already at age one since water is child's natural medium.