A Comparative Study on Family Education

Abstract In a lifetime , family is the head start school , in which parents are the first teachers for the children . Children are the hopes of a nation , and family cultivation is the elementary reading for children . There are many types of family education in the world and each of them shows distinctive features and is close responsive to its culture . And the Statesn family education is the most famous one among them . There are great inequalitys in the concepts of education , aim of education , methods of education and contents of education between American family education and Chinese family education .This thesis will complete the comparative study from the differences , the reasons and the results of family education between America and China . The author hopes to find a satisfied family education method through comparing the differences between American family education and Chinese family education . At the same time , the author hopes this thesis can provide some helpf ul suggestions for family education in range to make children grow more healthily and roundly . Keywords family education childeren differences education for all-around development Main Body . The differences of family education between America and China 1. The concepts of family education are distinct . The different education concepts between America and China lead children to receive differert education . In China , many parents only care about whether the children have a promising future , a good job , a good life or not . Based on these expectations , the majority of parents feel that their province for their children is to create as good conditions as possible they can so that the children will not worry about anything in the future .Chinese parents would give care to provide everything what they can for their children in the process of childrens growth . In short , they would like to sacrifice anything if their children can live better with their help . Therefore, in the process of childrens growth, the most important thing the parents concerning is to develop their childrens intellect , except for caring childrens daily life . In order to make their children have a good performance in study , become outstanding , or even become a famous someone n the future , they would not let children do anything except studying . Contrastively , American parents world-widely believe that the growth of childeren must rely on their possess strength and experiences. Based on this concept , most American parents emphasize more to train their childrens ability of independence once they are innate(p) because they think that children should form a self-supporting will and the capacity to live independently since their childhood . And the capacity comes from the training in the early age .In the film ?Gua Sha Treatment? , there is a scene that Datong orderded his son to apologize to his bosss son when his saw his son was fighting with his bosss son . Whats more , h e slapped his son in the face when his son ref apply to apologize , which gave his boss aquite a shock . His boss became confused why the father would show the regret by striking his son . This scene and the bosss confusion reflect the different concepts between the twain countries . Traditonal Chinese family education emphasize kindheartedness and bedience , so we can say that Chinese parents like Datong in the film always want to model their children .On the inverse , America children have more rights of autonomy because their parents emphasis on justice and freedom in the process of family education . 2. The aim of family education are different . The aim of family education is to foster the childeren to grow in some direction by family education . It is the restrictive factor for the direction of family education , deciding the general effect of it . So the aim of family education is the core of family education and the fundamental reason for the differences between the two co untries on family education .There is an essential difference between two countrys aim of family education , with to expect the child to become an outstanding personage and to hope the child to be an comprehensive and independent person giving expressions to the difference . To most Chinese parents , the aim is expecting their child to be a dragon , which is wang zi cheng long in Chinese . But American parents come hoping the child to be a man of ability which is wang zi cheng ren in Chinese as their aim . For Chinese parents, their aim is to do anyting to support their children to get eminent marks .What forms apparent contrast to it is , America parents give their children more training about improving abilities . They try to train their children to have the ability of adapting to environmental word form and the ability of living independently . 3. The methods are different between America and China . The differences of concepts and aim cause the childen to be taught by d ifferent ways and methods . In Chinese family , affected by Chinese traditional culture , parents educate children by control and seal type .There are three tips for it (1)Chinese parents adjust all things for their children in daily life . In Chinese family , children dont have to do any housework . (2)Chinese parents protect the children to excess in social activities . Many children are prevented from exposure to the outer world because their parents worry about childrens being affected by bad things . (3)Chinese parents have a rather strict attitude toward childrens study . Parents regard the grades as the only standard for future success . Tasks Sea strategy is often used in study .Chinese children are tired of doing many extra exercises . So Chinese children spend more time in studying than doing some other things . What about America children ? Lets talk about the famous film ?The Pacifier? . In the film , it may be unconcious , merely Shane Wolfe had let the kids m aster many skills by training them during the time when he cared them . So American parents bring up their children by the method of letting go but not indulging to exercise childrens abilities of independent living . 4. The different contents of family education between America and China .The differences of family education between the two countries are also reflected in the contents of family education . Although the contents of Chinese family education can also devided into moral education , intellectual education , corporal education and artistic education , but intellectual education has been the most important one since they go to school . However , the contents of American family education is abundant , which pay more attention to the harmonious development of language , emotion , knowledge and so on . It is so-called education for all-around development .