The family is the basic unit of society. It is a unique community in which a child should be felt safe and loved. Relationships between family members are more complex, closer and more intense than in other communities. Children gain various experiences through family, which are crucial for development of the image of oneself and others. Parenting plays the most important role in every child's life. It involves a range of skills, abilities and procedures that are necessary for the child to get to know himself and the world around him a model of appropriate behavior and expression of emotions. The role of parents in a child's life has a unique meaning for his growth and development, education, emotional security, social competence and intellectual achievement. In the context of the family, the child's socialization takes place during which it develops into an independent person. The task of the family is to create an independent and self-confident child, and it is self-confidence that arises as a result of the child's knowledge that he is important to parents and that he deserves the best. With the feeling of being loved and taken care of, during a child's growth, the parent should set clear rules and boundaries for the child's behavior and follow them adhere to. Through this paper, the styles of upbringing and how each style affects the child will be described. They are a combination of emotional warmth and care while the second factor is the degree of demandingness and control of a child's behavior. Knowing them makes it easier to understand children's behavior, but also adults. Everything that is learned in childhood is carried into adulthood because it is the family that provides to the child the foundations for the development of one's own identity. This is where the child learns values, nurtures relationships and communication and develops an image of oneself, others and the world. In this way, the child develops social skills and competences. Making decisions about a child's well-being and acting accordingly is not a simple and linear process. It is precisely from its complexity that the importance of insight into children's thinking arises, which by no means should remain subordinate to the opinion of adults and which the child should have the opportunity to express. Children's view and opinion are key for a better future of child upbringing and education where he will not be an object that is managed in the process, but an active stakeholder and above all a free self-aware person.