Parenting brings with it a number of challenges that parents cannot always cope with on their own, and it is crucial to provide them with timely counseling support. The aim of this paper is to give a systematic overview of papers in the databases of graduate theses UFRI and the database Hrčak in the period from 2011 to 2020. Only those papers related to providing support to parents in the system of early and preschool education were selected. A systematic review of the literature found 21 papers whose topic corresponds to the stated goal. 13 Master theseses from the Ufri repository and 8 papers from the Hrčak database of scientific papers were analyzed. Keyword analysis identified the predominance of keywords: educator, counseling support, parent, and support. 21.13% of empirical papers are represented. The majority of participants in the research were educators (5 papers) and parents (7 papers) from Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Zagreb County and the City of Zagreb. In the goals of the research, a larger number of researches are focused on the development and acquisition of competencies, and most of the researches used the survey as a measuring instrument. The findings of six selected papers that met the set criteria were analyzed: 1) is the paper empirical ?; 2) does it examine advisory support ?; 3) is support in general context examined ?; 4) is the topic in the field of early and preschool education ?, 5) from the perspective of which stakeholders was the topic researched? The analysis of the results of empirical work shows that educators perceive counseling support as a key part of their work but for which they still do not feel competent enough, while parents see the educator as a professional and a trusted person they feel free to seek advice.