Abstract Introduction Until 5 years of age, the kids have physiological flat-feet. It’s from a great sign if I can to conduct a prophylaxis starting from young age continuing throughout the entire life. Purpose: To research the impact of parent’s awareness on the prophylaxis off l at-feet in children. Methods and materials: The survey was carried out in June 2016. The survey included 12 closed questions, directed towards exploring the awareness if the parents regarding the condition flat-feet, its diagnostics, prophylaxis and its impact on the general health of the children. In the research participated 59 parents of children between the age of 5 and 17. The gathered data were analyzed using the statistical software package IBM SPSS for Windows, v. 19.0. Results: The majority of the surveyed parents - 57,6% (n=34) haven’t taken their kid to the GP for a prophylactic examination. In 22% (n=13) of the examined children flat-feet have been found. According to 13,6%(n=8) of the parents that is very important for their child’s health, 6,8%(n=4) stated it’s relatively important and 1,7% (n=1) find it not important. The vast majority 89,8% of the respondents are interested in receiving more information, Conclusions: The parents claim that they’re familiar with the condition flat-feet, but when analyzing their responses in our survey, we can conclude that their knowledge should be broadened.