Family education refers to the education that parents or other elders consciously give to their children in family life. Compared with school education and social education, family education is more extensive, and parents' methods of all-round education for their children are more flexible. Parents can educate their children in an eclectic way according to conditions and needs for a longer time. Family education begins with the birth of a child and continues until adulthood.

Family education is an education based on a certain marriage, consanguinity or adoption relationship.

Family education is an education based on a certain marriage, consanguinity or adoption relationship. In family education, the relationship between educators and educatees is not only a relationship between education and education, but also a blood relationship and emotional relationship. Family education is an activity to fully satisfy the personal wishes of family members and realize their interests. Secondly, family education is a kind of education that is integrated into family life and carried out naturally. Family is the basic organizational form of human social life. All activities in the family are carried out from the perspective of life and centered on the needs of life. Therefore, it can be said that family education is a life education.

Family education is a process of lifelong education.

Family education is a process of lifelong education. The education that people receive at first is family education, and this education process will last until he leaves this world. This long-term lifelong education can have a strong and lasting impact on the formation of a person's personality. As a special form of education, family education has its unique characteristics and advantages. First, from the perspective of the education environment, the family is a naturally formed social organization form based on marriage and linked by blood relationship. This natural living environment has a profound and lasting impact on people's ideological and moral character and behavior habits. Moreover, family education changes with the change of environment, which is social and contemporary. Family education has different characteristics in different social forms and different historical periods.