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1. Introduction

It is obvious that children are the future of the country and the family education is the first step of children's growing. In the 21st century, international competition is becoming fiercer. And it is a competition for talents fundamentally. Thus, each country should pay more attention to family education in the education projects. Consequently, so many countries are researching how to teach the children and how to create the better family education. However, in the world, many people only combined all kinds of family education ignorantly, which has a bad influence.

Nowadays Chinese parents have become more aware of the importance of their children’s education that they hope they can provide their children with the best education they can afford. However, there are many parents adapting very harsh and extreme methodology, which is incorrect, and very common in present China. In order to find a better way to educate our children, we should study other countries’ experiences. There are many types of family education in the world, and American family education is the most famous one. So it is necessary and significant to make a comparison of the differences of family education between America and China. This paper is written to compare Chinese family education and American family education superficially, which may offer some lessons to family education.

2. Literature Review

As we all know, family is the first place and plays an essential role for the children to receive initial education．In order to better understand the importance of family education, I studied many works of some famous scholars and experts. They have studied the topic from many different angles, such as the definition, the aims, the methods, the results and the reasons and so on. From their studies, I realized that China and America have remarkable differences in family education．so，right understanding and drawing lessons from advanced foreign education methods are of great realistic significances to facilitate the healthy growth of children and to enhance the quality of future talent．However, there

is something that I thought different from those experts, since we should not only focus on the weak point of Chinese family education, there is also some lessons that the Americans should learn from us. The following are what I studied from those famous scholars and experts.

2.1 The definition of family education

According to Meng Xiaojia:“Family education is defined as: The phenomenon that parents or the elder family members educate the children consciously, which is the most important part in education system.”(孟小佳，2010:193) Also, there is another similar saying from Wang Jing: “The family is the first as well as the last school of mankind. Everyone is receiving education and participating in education activities, consciously or unconsciously during his whole life. Family education influences individuals most profoundly and lasts the longest.”(王婧，2011:327) Huang Xiaoyong says that family education not only refers to parents or elder people’s teaching to the younger generation, but also the inter-education between family members.(黄小勇，2009:101)

2.2 The aims of family education

Huang Heqing says :“The aims of family education influence its direction and decide its results. Thus the aim is the core of family education, and it’s the basic reason of the differences of C hina and American education.”(黄河清：2003)Wang Dali points out that in America，the purpose of family education is to train independent children so they could survive in all kinds of social conditions and situations．However，in China，most parents expect their daughters to be phoenix like and their sons to be dragon like．They wish their children to go into a top university and find a decent job.（王大利，2011:172）

2.3 The methods of family education

Zhang Yangmei has mentioned: “Influenced by traditional culture, Chi nese parents are usually more imperative than democratic, which do not benefit children’s healthy upbringing. We should put forward “relax and open” education.”(张仰媚，2011) On the contrary, Zhang Wei says: “American parents usually respect their children’s i nterest and decisions; the family education is democratic and open. They often solve different kinds of