Parents or other elderly people are the main body of family education. Their education for their children and other young people includes setting an example, teaching by example and educating people by environment. As the name implies, teaching by example refers to reasoning and making demands through language (oral or written language), so that children know what to do and why to do it. Leading by example means that teachers set an example for their children, thus establishing their own prestige and enhancing the educational effect. Environmental education refers to creating a better learning and growing environment for children, so as to give full play to the role of example and the subtle influence of family on children.

Children or other young people are not passive and passive recipients. They may well accept the educational influence from their parents or other elderly people, or they may be indifferent to this kind of education and even try their best to resist it. Their parents' education has its own characteristics, but at the same time it will also have an impact on their parents' ideas and behaviors. It can be seen that children or other teenagers are not only the object of education, but also the subject of education. In the process of education, communication of opinions, emotional exchange and understanding of thoughts and behaviors between parents and children, and between old people and young people are extremely important. Therefore, family education is not a one-way teaching, but a two-way interaction.