1, understand the basic characteristics of children.

Children's psychology has "three good": good games, good imitation and curiosity. "Four likes": like success, like wild life, like gregarious, like praise. This is a basic feature of children, and parents should first understand it.

2. Understand the child's psychological characteristics.

The psychological age characteristics of children are general, typical and essential psychological characteristics formed in different age stages of children's development under certain social and educational conditions.

The significance of parents mastering their children's psychological age stage lies in:

First, the age characteristics of children's psychological development is a starting point of family education, and the task of parents is to guide their children's development from this starting point.

Second, different family education policies should be redefined at different psychological age stages of children. For example, preschool classes should focus on cultivating children's good hygiene habits and behavior habits; Primary school is mainly about learning.

Thirdly, according to children's psychological age characteristics, choosing the contents and methods of family education is a necessary condition to ensure the smooth development of children's personality.

Fourth, every psychological age stage has a leading activity, and different age stages have different leading activities. For example, children's activities are mainly games, and primary school students' activities are learning.