1, face the reality. Parents should treat their children with a healthy attitude. That is, we should not be pessimistic and disappointed, abandon ourselves, indulge in obedience and let it develop without discrimination. Parents should establish confidence and face the reality with an optimistic and scientific attitude. Family education for mentally retarded children can be successful. 2. Love children. For children with mental retardation, parents should give more care and family warmth, respect and be close to children, and give more opportunities and rights to participate in family life on an equal footing. For example, chatting together, participating in family affairs, doing housework as much as possible, going out to participate in social activities and so on. Harmonious family life is conducive to the education and growth of children with mental retardation. 3. Be decent. Children with mental retardation have brain injury and various functional disorders due to various reasons, and special educational methods must be adopted to achieve educational results. (1) Education should be targeted. Combine the main problems of each child and educate them one by one for a period of time. For example, it is necessary to educate children who have just entered school to standardize their schedules, get up on time, go to school, take care of themselves, help them form a regular life, and guide them to correct bad habits. (2) Proceed from reality. According to children's different degrees of disability and acceptance, different educational methods are adopted, which are intuitive, vivid and easy to understand. For example, learning children's songs, watching pictures, telling stories and playing games. Integrate education into lively practice, stimulate children's interest, experience the joy of success, understand the truth and learn to do things. (3) Encourage more and strengthen more. Children with mental retardation spend more time and energy on education than normal children because of their slow perception, slow memory and scattered thinking and imagination. Therefore, parents should have patience and perseverance, strictly demand the training of their children, and persistently carry out intensive training; Give affirmation, encouragement and even some material rewards to children's little progress, help children build confidence, constantly overcome and correct their physical and mental defects, and promote their physical and mental development. We should not just be rude and give up halfway. (4) Parents should be role models for their children. Children with mental retardation often learn some truth through imitation learning, so parents should behave in a civilized way, live in harmony, set an example for their children with good daily behavior and help them correct their mistakes. In short, good family education will promote the self-esteem, self-confidence and self-reliance of mentally retarded children, become useful people to the family, society and country, and make more disabled families happy!