The aim of this work was to investigate and examine the habits, opinions and competence of parents of children of lower grades for media education. The paper primarily explains the factors that influence the child's development, the styles of parenting and the changes that made the traditional family a modern family. The second part of the paper focuses on the media, primarily the electronic media that have replaced all others today. The positive and negative effects of the media, the ways in which the media influence children, and the changes that the media have brought about in the family are presented. The research showed that although they do not have certain habits, such as reading books, they still want to instill healthy habits in their children and encourage them. Parents are aware of the dangers in the media, but they do not consider themselves competent enough to raise their children with the media. Parents fully agree with the fact that media education workshops should be introduced. Workshops for media education are described in more detail in the paper.