Parenting is described as a term that speaks of raising children, taking care of a child and accepting a parenting role. Parental stress refers to agitation that is associated with the requirements of the parental role. Educational styles are the ways in which parents raise their children and are defined on the basis of warmth and supervision, that is, parental control. The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between parental stress and educational styles and whether there is a difference between parental stress and educational styles with regard to age, education, number of children, age at the time of birth of the first child and difficulties in child development. Participants in the study are parents of children of early and preschool age. The study included 130 respondents, of which 118 were female and 14 respondents were male, and the study was conducted through "Google forms". The following instruments were used in this paper: Questionnaire for Sociodemographic Data, Questionnaire for Sources and Intensity of Parental Stress, and Questionnaire for Parental Styles. The results showed that among the participants who participated in the study there were no significant differences in the intensity of parental stress with regard to age, number of children, age at the time when they became parents for the first time and level of education. Testing the significance of differences between parents of children with disabilities and those with children of typical development was not possible due to the small number of participants. The only significant positive correlation of moderate size was found between parental stress and permissive upbringing style, which shows that parents who describe higher levels of stress prefer a more permissive upbringing style.