The topic of this thesis is the role of parents in encouraging children's games for healthy child development. Children's play is a free activity and an indispensable part of every childhood and growing up. The game to the child represents satisfaction and happiness and has a positive effect on his health development. Also, it is the most important part of the child's growth, because the child spends most of his childhood in the game. Parents have the most important role in raising a child by creating stimulating environments for learning and acquiring new insights and knowledge about what surrounds him. While growing up, the most important activity of every child is play. It allows him freedom and fun and with it the child acquires new knowledge the fastest and easiest. Also, every child has the right to play, because it is the primary and best way of learning. Play can help a child express problems, difficulties or experienced stressful events. Because of that, it is necessary to include parents in children's play in order to get closer to their child and spot in time if the child has a problem. The aim of this thesis is to show the importance of children's games for healthy child development through existing facts, to state what the play represents to the child during growing up, and the importance of ensuring the key factors in the game in order to enable the child to develop and grow up healthy.