The study focuses on investigating whether family socio-demographic characteristics affect a child’s participation in leisure and social activities at school from a cross-cultural perspective. The findings indicate that being members of an individualistic society, Dutch parents’ and teachers’ attitudes significantly explained the priority in valuing leisure in a child’s socialization and education. In contrast, a child in Turkish society is socialized within a collectivist culture where individual needs, interests, autonomy and self–sufficiency are ignored. Therefore, the data on Turkish parents’ and teachers’ attitudes revealed that academic success had priority in a child’s socialization and education.