Contemporary expectations of good pareting include intensuve parental attention as the key to developing good psychological, social and educational outcomes in children, especially in their early years. The mother´s role has developed and changed throughout history, but motherhood was generally considered one of the most important roles in women`s lives, especially today it is considered the emergence of the ideal of intensive motherhood. Intensive motherhood is the ideal of modern motherhood, which means that the mother invests all her time in raising her children. This papre deals with the queation to what extent mothers of children of early and preshool age whose children attend kindergarten support certain segments of the ideal of intensive motherhood. For this purpose, a quantitative study was conducted with mothers (N=181), in which the questionnaire method was used to examine the attitudes of mothers of early and preschool children about the ideal of intensive motherhood. Using a questionnaaire, the attitudes of mothers of early and preshool children about the ideal of intensive motherhood and their practices of motherhood were examined. We were interested in wheather the attitudes and practices of mothers are in line with the trtend of increasing and intensifying child care that occurs in modern societies. The results showed that there are differences in mothers` attitudes about intensive motherhood depending on mothers` level of education. The results related to mothers` practices also showed that there are differences in mothers` practices depending on their age, the level of education od their partners, the way of making decisions in the family or the environment they belong to. The analysis of the results also shows that there is a significant gap between attitudes about intensive mothering practices, which mothers generally do not support, and the actual practices that mothers carry out in raising their children, which show exactly the practices of intensive mothering. The overall analysis showed that child care activities are still predominantly maternal activities.