Family education for children with mental retardation is a special form of family education for children with mental retardation, which is different from general education. Children are the hope of the family. If properly educated, mentally retarded children can also have a bright future. How to do a good job in family education for children with mental retardation and let them get good rehabilitation and development is an urgent problem for every parent. With the development of economy, culture, education, science and technology and the continuous improvement of population quality, this problem has attracted more and more attention from society and every family. Family is the initial living environment for children and the most important cradle for their growth. Children's social activities begin with their parents, and the frequency of communication with their parents is the highest. The first teacher they studied was their parents. For various reasons, mentally retarded children need the active help and education of their parents more than normal children. However, due to parents' lack of knowledge about family education and incorrect educational methods, family education has been greatly restricted, and even gone into a misunderstanding, which has brought great obstacles to the physical and mental development of mentally retarded children. At present, parents of children with mental retardation are educated at home, which leads to parents' beautiful vision of their children being broken by the definition of "disability", and parents are very disappointed with the status quo. In the eyes of parents, mentally retarded children are "waste". In such a family environment, children with mental retardation can't get proper, harmonious and even necessary basic education. The vast majority of mentally retarded children wait until school age before their parents reluctantly send them to special education schools for a few years. In fact, these parents have no hope for them, just some "needs". For example, Zhu, a student, is severely mentally disabled and cannot take care of himself.