The aim of this study was to examine the contribution of parents' emotional intelligence and religiosity in predicting their preventive and corrective actions. The study involved 115 parents of children from the first to fourth grade of elementary school. A part of the participants was recruited by a snowball method and a part through parental meetings in the three primary schools of the city of Zagreb. The parents completed an Emotional intelligence questionnaire (Takšić, 2002), Religious questionnaire (Ljubotina, 2004), and Scale of preventive actions (Profaca, 2002) and Scale of corrective actions (Delale, 2009). After the conducted hierarchical regression analysis, 14.1% of the variance of preventive procedures and 16.7% of alternatives of punishment were explained. Variables of emotional intelligence together significantly contributed to the explained variance of preventative child rearing techniques; were emotional intelligence is higher at parents who are using preventive actions more frequently. But, the only significant independent predictor of preventive actions was one of the dimensions of religiousness related to social behavior. Parents who have achieved low score on the dimension of religiosity have achieved higher results on the scale of preventative actions. Also, education of parents and the dimension of religiousness focused on social behavior has proven to be a significant predictor of alternatives to punishments. Parents of low educational status, as well as with high scores on the dimension of religiousness related to social behavior have achieved higher results on a scale of corrective actions related to alternatives to punishments. For another type of corrective action, punishment, no significant predictor was identified.