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Understanding beliefs about parental practices can provide practitioners of early child care and their families elements for the design of effective early intervention strategies. The present study aimed to investigate the beliefs about parental practices in families of children with developmental delays. Thirty-six families of 40 children attending the Municipal Early Childhood Centers, who presented different delays in their development, in the city of Curitiba, Brazil, participated in this study the home visit was conducted for each family, in which the parents answered the two questionnaires. Among the results, it was verified that the higher the level of importance to the beliefs about practices of presentation of the baby or child in public, the lower the level of parental schooling. From these results, it is concluded that beliefs about parental practices differ when related to other factors, especially with parent level of education, and the presence of religious practices, which showed high importance for this sample.