The article is devoted to the problem of cooperation between kindergarten educators and parents as they may originally havedifferent understanding of children’s development. Nowadays there are many changes under way in the educational system sothis problem is considered to be highly relevant in modern Russia. We suggest using joint activities of educators and parentsfor designing a child’s development. We suppose that the main direction of the child's mental development is emotionalintelligence, and its development is closely related to the type of child and parents relationship. Family performs a special rolein the emotional development of a child and a kindergarten performs another specific role. Joint activities by the family andthe kindergarten may contribute to the child’s adequate development.