The significance of family education from a family matter to a national matter

The answer to the question of "the significance of family education being elevated from a family matter to a national matter" is as follows:

Family education is the beginning of education, which is related to the healthy growth of minors and the well-being of the family, as well as the development of the country, the progress of the nation, and the stability of society.

On Oct. 23, the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) voted at its 31st meeting to pass a law on promoting family education. The new law will come into effect on January 1, 2022, it said.

Guo Linmao, director of the Social Law Office of the Law Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), said the enactment of the law on the promotion of family education is the rule of law outcome of the implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's relevant important exposition and the decision-making and deployment of the Central Committee of the Party, the embodiment of the rule of law in vigorously carrying forward the virtues of the Chinese nation's family, the rule of law guarantee for the promotion of minors' healthy growth and all-around development, and the rule of law carrier for comprehensively summing up the experience of local legislation and practice.

Guo Linmao said that the highlights of the Family Education Promotion Law, summarized in two points, the implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thesis on focusing on the construction of the family family education and family culture, to carry forward the Chinese people attach importance to the fine traditions of family education, and to take a series of measures through the design of the system to realize the family education from the traditional mode of the family rules, family training, and family books as a carrier.

To the new model of iterative upgrading led and driven by the rule of law, with socialist core values as the main content, and with the fundamental task of establishing moral character, family education has been elevated from a traditional "family matter" of the old era to an important "national matter" of the new era. The new model is an iterative upgrade that elevates family education from a traditional "family matter" in the old days to an important "national matter" in the new era; it implements the spirit of the central government's document on reducing the burden of homework and out-of-school training for students in compulsory education.

Changing the situation in which the family is only an extension of the student's classroom and parents are only assistants to the school teacher, highlighting the importance and role of family education, liberating family education from the status of an appendage of school education, and truly realizing the mutual coordination of school education and family education.

How to define family education is the first question to be answered in the formulation of the law on the promotion of family education.

"Family education has a broad and narrow sense, the broad sense of family education is the mutual education among family members, family education promotion law is accurate in the healthy growth of minors, adopting a narrow concept, refers to the parents or other guardians of minors to implement the moral character, physical fitness, life skills, cultural cultivation, behavioral habits and other aspects of the cultivation, guidance and influence." Guo Linmao said.

The Family Education Promotion Law stipulates that parents or other guardians are responsible for the implementation of family education and bear the main responsibility of implementing family education for minors.

Guo Linmao said the responsibilities of parents or other guardians include:

Following the laws of minors' growth and establishing a correct concept of family education; they should work closely with primary and secondary schools, kindergarten infant and child care services, and the community, and take an active part in family education guidance and practice activities.

Parents who are separated or divorced shall cooperate with each other in fulfilling their family education responsibilities, and neither party shall refuse or neglect to fulfill such responsibilities; when entrusting others with the care of minors in accordance with the law, they shall regularly learn about the minors' study, living conditions, and psychological status, and fulfill their family education responsibilities in conjunction with the person entrusted with their care; and they shall reasonably arrange for minors to have time for study, rest, recreation, and physical exercise.

There are many different contents and ways of family education, which contents and which way is correct? In this regard, the Law on Promotion of Family Education has made several guiding provisions.