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Goals. The goal of this thesis was to describe nuclear family parents’ thoughts of parenthood and the diversity of everyday life. According to the results of The Family Barometer 2017 by The Family Federation of Finland young childless adults that are postponing their parenthood see the everyday life of a family with children busy and troublesome. They also see families with children as so called Prisma family which are similar to each other. Prisma family is a fairly new concept of a stereotypical family whose parents seem to be busy and nervous and their children furious. The Family Barometer doesn’t disclose the parents’ points of view on family life, so this thesis aims at providing information of the everyday life of a family with children, and at raising the diversity of daily life of the nuclear family i.e. heterosexual parents and their common children. The generalization of Prisma family doesn’t fit in this diversity. The goal was to stir up ideas of the diversity of daily life and diminish its emphasis on the extremes. Methods. This thesis is placed between qualitative and quantitative research. The data for the thesis was collected with a questionnaire that included open ended questions. The data based on five nuclear family parents that were chosen by discretionary sample and was analyzed by using content analysis. Eventually the qualitative features were emphasized in the execution and demarcation of this thesis because the goal was to describe nuclear family parents’ own thoughts without a need of generalization. Results and conclusions. The parents of nuclear families experienced their everyday life positively. It seems that the support and compromising between the parents are connected to better experience of their own time and opportunity to have hobbies. Four of the couples saw that their time together had diminished. In turn three of the couples found that their children have strengthened the bond between the parents. Combining work and study with everyday life of a family with children worked out well among the families in the research. All in all, the families participating in the thesis were actually examples of Prisma family, whose lives are busy but thanks to their flexibility they didn’t experience the rush only negatively but could control it.