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The present study was based on a survey conducted on 48 pairs of parents, whose children were studying in primary standards. The aim of the study was to assess the awareness among parents regarding habit problem exist in their children. Educational qualifications of each of the parents were taken into consideration during analysis. It is found from the parental profile data that, 14.58%, 68.75%, 16.67% among father and 22.92 %, 60.42 %, 16.67 % among mother studied up to +2, +3, and Post Graduate respectively. Analysis also revealed that, numbers of mothers studied up to +2 is higher than fathers and similarly numbers of fathers studied up to +3 is greater than the number of mothers while same numbers of parents studied up to post graduate or higher degree level. It is seen that, majority among parents were not aware about the problematic behaviours in their children or ignore the behaviour problems exist in children. Educational qualification has put some impact on parent�s awareness of behaviour problems. It is concluded that, early childhood care professionals and Government should take initiatives to conduct various training programme to make awareness among parents and stake holders.