Parenting is a term that refers to raising children. Being a parent means encouraging and guiding the growth and development of a being who needs love, protection and security in order to grow into a person who is able to cope with different life situations. Parenting style refers to a set of actions and ways of parent's reaction to a child, i.e. the way a parent raises a child. In this process, parents use different procedures that can positively or negatively affect the child's development. Emotional intelligence is an ability that refers to various emotional and social skills that include expressing, naming, noticing, understanding, regulating and managing emotions. The aim of the research is to examine whether emotional intelligence is related to educational styles. Three questionnaires were used in the research: Questionnaire of sociodemographic data, Questionnaire of educational styles, Questionnaire of emotional intelligence. 168 parents took part in the questionnaire and the research was conducted via "Google forms". Differences were found for parenting styles according to the level of education and work status. Employed and unemployed participants whose spouses work show a higher identification with an authoritative parenting style than participants who are the only employees in the family or those who come from families where there are no employees Authoritarian parenting style is more often described by people with graduate education than those with undergraduate education, permissive parenting style is more often described by parents with high school education than those with higher professional education. Parents who completed only high school describe a lower level of emotion regulation and management than parents who completed undergraduate studies. The connection between the authoritative educational style and all aspects of emotional intelligence was determined.