Monitoring changes in child parenting through history has led to new knowledge about parenting. This ever-changing process also influenced the image of modern parenting and its challenges. Most of parents ask questions and seek for answers when raising their own child. An essential feature of modern parenting is to love your child. However, in comparison to the traditional approach to parenthood, which has predominantly defined the love of the child in an authoritarian way, more and more contemporary research comes to conclusions about this days permissive parenting. Permissive parenting style causes are found in the wrong interpretation of love and respect for the child, the presence of parental guilt and perfection in the child's parenting and the inability to express parental love and dedication due to busy life parents have. The work consists of two parts, theoretical and examining. The theoretical part of the paper deals with the definition and meaning of the parenting concept, different parenting styles, differences between traditional and contemporary approach to parenthood as well as the contemporary image of the child. The basic features of the permissive parenting style and its consequences on the child are also explained, as well as the factors of successful parenting that bring a happy and responsible child. For the purpose of the examining work, a survey questionnaire was used for parents of kindergarten "Cvrčak" in Zagreb. The questionnaire focuses on seeking answers and expressing parenting attitudes related to the characteristics of permissive parenting and the reasons for selecting certain educational practices. The results of the test show that parents' opinions and attitudes are partly correlated with hypotheses. Most parents find that they often provide warmth and control to the child, but they do not set rules and boundaries equally and do not encourage child’s independence and responsibility. Lower percentage of parents control their children in pedagogically inappropriate ways and believe that the reasons for choosing certain educational practices are experiences from their childhood, feelings of guilt, striving for perfection, and misinterpretation of love and respect. From the above, we can conclude that most parents nurture an indulgent upbringing style by providing the child with a lot of warmth and support and less supervision and control.