The article discusses urgent problems of preschool education in Lithuania: the variety in young children education programmes and education organisation order, change in pre-school education and possibilities for its development. Having decentralised pre-school education and development of pre-school education programmes, there occur possibilities for a more intensive change in children education programmes. The article discusses the goals and content structure of programmes developed by pre-school education institutions and points out how alternative pre-school education systems and trends, children needs and priority areas of education are reflected in the programmes of different institutions. The variety in order of pre-school education organisation is also discussed and possibilities for expansion of pre-school education organisation order are discussed.