This thesis deals with the challenges of parenting during the Covid-19 pandemic. Literature review shows that the pandemic made the role of parents quite challenging, given that parents faced new situations, and above all the challenge of reconciling constant changes in the work environment and educational system, as well as changes in the amount of childcare, household work and online schooling. Numerous measures by states around the world were aimed at providing support and assistance to the population, but also to certain social groups such as parents, all with the aim of better coping with the newly created circumstances. Despite all measures, the pandemic had negative effects on parents and children, and some studies indicate that the pandemic strengthened social inequalities. Research points out an increased gender inequality in the public and private sphere, where women have faced a greater burden of increased care and housework, as well as an increased level of stress among parents, but also the negative effects of school closures on children's psychological health and their educational outcomes. At the end of the thesis, the results of an online pre-survey with parents of children in Croatia whose children attended elementary school during the lockdown are presented, conducted with the aim of obtaining information about the challenges faced by parents. The results show that a third of parents worked at workplaces during the lockdown, which led to the problem of reconciling work obligations with the remote school schedule, as well as that parents encountered to varying degrees a lack of support within the educational system, but also at work place.