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This study discusses the role of parents in shaping the confident behavior of 4-5-year-old children at PAUD SPAS Buakkang, Gowa Regency which aims to find out the form of children's confident behavior, what obstacles parents experience in forming children's confident behavior and how the role of parents in shaping children's confident behavior. This type of research is qualitative research with a descriptive qualitative approach. Primary data sources are parents of students and teachers. Secondary data sources are institutional profiles, as well as photos during research activities. The data collection methods used are observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of this study show that the form of confident behavior of children has not yet developed and still needs encouragement and support. The obstacles experienced by parents in forming children's confident behavior are lack of communication, difficulty controlling children's emotions and lack of understanding of children. The role of parents in shaping children's confident behavior is to always be a good listener, show respect, and let the child do what the child can do and let the child help. The implications of this research for educators are that to form children's confident behavior, teachers should provide more motivation and always listen to children's stories, each child is at school so that children are used to opening up to each other. The next researcher is expected to develop a similar research on how the role in shaping early childhood confident behavior by parents and teachers by using many different ways and approaches.