First, the family is the environment where children live for the longest time. Sufficient time allows children and parents to get along with each other day and night, and there are many opportunities for contact. In this way, on the one hand, parents' quality, education, personality, speech, manners, lifestyle, educational attitude and so on. They all affect children intentionally or unintentionally, and have an important influence on the formation of children's moral concepts, codes of conduct and some good habits for a long time. On the other hand, children's personality characteristics, moral quality, learning situation, hobbies, living habits and so on. They are fully and naturally displayed in the family, and parents are extremely concerned and sensitive to their children's performance, so they have the conditions to understand all aspects of their children and conduct corresponding guidance and training from the reality of their children.

Second, as the basic unit of society, the family is the closest social life group for children. The intimate blood relationship between parents and children determines that the family is a special group. In this group, parents have devoted great care and care to their children's growth, which is a solid foundation for their growth. Family intimacy also determines that children, especially young children, are more likely to accept the education and influence of their parents.

Thirdly, the content of family education is very extensive, including study, morality, health, hygiene, safety, courtesy, communication, interest, emotion, housework, consumption and so on. The effective use of these contents is very beneficial to the growth of children. We know that schools play a leading role in cultivating students, but to achieve the best educational effect in school education, we need the full cooperation of families, make full use of many educational factors and conduct extensive education. In short, family education plays an important role in the process of children's socialization, including imparting social behavior norms, cultivating moral sentiments, guiding life goals, and forming personal interests. It can be said that the role of family education can not be ignored and replaced. But it does not mean that all families will play a positive role in children's development. In real life, it is also common that families have a negative effect on children's growth. So ... The role of family education is a complex problem, which depends on family environment, personnel structure, parents' quality, educational attitude, educational content, educational methods and methods, family economic situation, etc. Therefore, we should pay enough attention to family education, study it as a science, and explore it in practice in order to give full play to the role of family education.