The main goal of this paper is to determine and investigate the structure of parents' opinions and attitudes about their children's interests in participating in extracurricular and extracurricular sports activities, and to understand the factors that influence these interests. For the purposes of analysis, an online questionnaire of 17 items was used. The criterion variable was the weekly participation of children in organized physical/sports activities/training during the year. In order to determine whether there are significant differences between the two groups, a canonical discriminant analysis was performed on the groups. The sample was composed of 401 entities represented by parents, with an average chronological age of 39.38±5.95 years. It should be kept in mind that the researched attitudes of parents in this paper represent only a partial variance of all possible areas and attitudes of parents. The conducted research did not cover all the factors that can influence parents' attitudes and perceptions of children's interests in extracurricular sports activities. The information obtained is limited, and for the purposes of this work, the metric characteristics of the completed questionnaire have not been verified.