The coronavirus epidemic has had a significant impact on education systems around the world. In this context, distance education has been seen as the most appropriate method to continue the education of students without interruption. Therefore, parents have important duties. In this research, the fear experienced by parents during the pandemic period and the obstacles they experience in distance education were examined. Scanning model was adopted in the study. The data of the research was collected in the Mentese district of Mugla in the fall semester of the 2020-2021 academic year. 154 parents, including 24 men, 130 women, 41 primary school graduates, 51 high school graduates, 48 undergraduate and 12 postgraduate parents, participated in the research. The data of the study were collected with the COVID-19 Fear Scale developed by Ahorsu et al. (2020). According to the findings of the research, the item that the participants agreed with the most was “I am most afraid of coronavirus-19” (3.98), and the item they agreed with the least was “I cannot sleep because I am worried about catching the coronavirus-19” (2,17). Most of the participating parents stated that when the distance education process started, they looked at internet-based education sites and bought extracurricular activity books for their children, but they did not give their children private lessons.