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Abstract - Parenting takes a calm and aware condition of what parents facing at the moment or mindful so that parents are more aware of their emotions, accept the situation, and improve the quality of interaction of parents which is then called mindful parenting. this is becoming increasingly understood by parents today. Increasing evidence supports of mindfulness in parenting, we analyzed and described mindful parenting in pre-schoolers parents in Bandung City, Indonesia. About 163 parents completed the self reported questionnaires using Mindfulness in Parenting Questionnaire developed by McCaffrey, Reitman and Black [1]. The demographic data included ages, sex, education background, monthly income, and amount of children, also reported by respondent. Sample of this research are preschool in center region area of Bandung. The range of mindful parenting was devided into “high” and “low”. Most of parents with preschool children has high level of mindful parenting. About 12 fathers has high mindfulness in parenting and 123 of mothers also categorized as high on mindful parenting. Previous research found that ages becomes one of some factors of mindfulness, especially in the period of late adulthood. Contrast with the data collection which found that higher score of mindful parenting was distributed in all range of ages. In line with ages, educations was found as a factor of mindfulness in parenting. According to this research, high score of mindfulness in parenting was spread in all range of parents education, start from Elementary school to master degree