The media have become an indispensable part of modern society, an unavoidable part of the child's daily routine. Children are digital natives because they grow up with media and they start using them at early age. We need to accept the digital age, the virtual reality and the media as a part of childhood and try to understand them in order to ensure that children from the media get the most important things - skills, attitudes and knowledge. Relationship between children and media is increasingly in the focus of the researchers because the influence of the media on children is diverse, it can be positive and negative, depending on media content, the age of child, engagement of adults from the child's environment, how much they participate in children's media activities and depends on the media literacy of adults. In order for children to use the media responsibly and appropriately and to protect them from negative influences, media literacy must be provided. Primarily, child is protected by the Convention on the Rights of the Child and by different media laws. The first media habits of the child acquires from the parents in their own home, the child copies the habits of parents. Parents are the first and most important media teachers, they share this role later with teachers. The media attracts children and the choice of media use is various. Television has remained one of the media that children gladly use in spite of the emergence of the internet and its widespread use and ability to use on various devices. Children watch television at home, but they can use the media outside the home wherever they are on the internet. With the use of television and the internet, children have more screen time, an average of about 3 hours a day, which affects on their other activities. In order to prevent the effects of screen time, it is important to choose high quality content but also to encourage other activities than watching various media content. In the research part of this paper the results of the usage of television and internet among preschool children on a sample of 105 parents in kindergarten are presented.