Family education refers to the cultivation, guidance and influence of parents or other guardians on minors' moral quality, physical quality, life skills, cultural accomplishment and behavior habits, so as to promote their comprehensive and healthy growth.

Family education takes moral education as its fundamental task, cultivates and practices socialist core values, promotes the excellent traditional culture, revolutionary culture and advanced socialist culture of the Chinese nation, and promotes the healthy growth of minors.

Basic concepts of family education

Family education is one of the components of big education and the foundation of school education and social education. Family education is lifelong education, starting from the day the child is born (even dating back to the fetal period). Family education in early childhood is "the beginning of life" education, which plays a fundamental role in people's life. After children go to primary school and middle school, family education is not only the foundation of school education, but also the supplement and extension of school education.

Its educational goal should be to ensure the healthy development of children's body and mind before entering the society to receive collective education, so as to lay a good foundation for receiving education in kindergartens and schools. Hao Bin, a famous psychologist, once said, "Family education is the foundation and starting point of the whole life education". Indeed, family education is a kind of education that has the deepest influence on one's life, directly or indirectly affecting the realization of one's life goals.