Family education is an interdisciplinary subject. From the perspective of educational science, pedagogy can be divided into school pedagogy, social pedagogy and family pedagogy. Family pedagogy is a branch of pedagogy. From the perspective of family sociology, the family has the functions of production, life, leisure, support, education and childbirth. The branches of family function are family economy, family politics, family life, childbirth and family education. Family pedagogy is a branch of family sociology.

Psychology is a science that studies human psychological phenomena and their psychological functions and behavioral activities under their influence, taking into account outstanding theories and applications. Psychology includes basic psychology and applied psychology, and its research involves many fields such as perception, cognition, emotion, thinking, personality, behavior habit, interpersonal relationship, social relationship, artificial intelligence, IQ, personality and so on, as well as many fields of daily life-family, education, health, society and so on. On the one hand, psychology tries to explain the basic behavior and psychological function of individuals with brain operation, and at the same time, psychology also tries to explain the role of individual psychological function in social behavior and social motivation; In addition, it is also related to neuroscience, medicine, philosophy, biology, religion and other disciplines, because the physiological or psychological effects discussed by these disciplines will affect the individual's mind. In fact, many humanities and natural disciplines are related to psychology, and human psychological activities are inseparable from human living environment.