Parental behavior is a very important factor which has an essential role in the growth and development of a child. The ways in which parents behave in interaction with their children can leave a big impact on the present and future life of a child. That being said, parent-child interaction is the first thing to be analyzed so far as we want to know the reason why a child behaves in a certain or particular way. In accordance with this, the focus of this paper was on students' perceptions of parental behavior and its connection with self-respect and academic achievement. This research is based on quantitative methodology, and it counts 158 participants in total. In this research, students from different academic years, as well as different academic groups who study in Croatia, voluntarily participated. To investigate the perception of parental behavior, the used scale was the scale of family interactions (COBI) designed by Vulić-Prtorić (2000). The self-respect scale from Rosenberg (1965) was used to measure the level of students self-respect. Academic achievement was measured in a way in which freshmen were asked to give their average final grade from high school, and older students needed to write their average final grade from all academic years in total. Statistically significant association was established between perception of parental behavior and self-respect, but in this research, it has not shown a statistically significant association between perception of parental behavior and students’ academic achievement.