Emotional intelligence is a relatively new concept in modern psychology, often in a secondary position relative to IQ. Emotional intelligence consists of skills that we can divide into emotional and social. They can influence the way we present ourselves to others, how we express ourselves, how we progress, how we deal with life's adversities and much more. People who have developed emotional intelligence will more easily and quickly recognize their own emotions as well as other people’s emotions. Emotional intelligence consists of five aspects: self-awareness, self-regulation, instrinsic motivation, empathy, and social skills. We can imagine these five aspects as five steps on the path to emotional intelligence. The aim of this thesis is to determine the parental assessment of the emotional competence of their children and to participate in the construction of a standardized questionnaire for this assessment. For this purpose, a survey was conducted on 78 eighth grade students (4 classes) from the elementary school Dr. Jure Turić from Gospić and 78 of their parents. Parental assessment of the emotional competence of their children was made with the help of the newly constructed Questionnaire of parental assessment of emotional competence of children (URPEKD) by Nikčević-Milković et al. (2020), and the assessment of students' emotional competence was made with the help of the Emotional Competence Questionnaire (UEK-45) by Vladimir Takšić (2002). Results of this research showed that most parents estimates their children as mostly emotional competent. Also, Questionnaire of parental assessment of emotional competence of children (URPEKD) was proven to be reliable and suitable for usage when it comes to parents of elementary school students.