China and America have many distinctions in their respective cultures, among those distinctions, family education is the most obvious one.
　　As we all know, Chinese students have a well-established learning foundation and a good self-discipline since Chinese parents pay more attentions on kids' intelligence quotient. However, Chinese family education also has short-comings. First, the spoiled raising method, which means parents always satisfy wishes of kids. In temporary society, “boomerang child”, “strawberry generation”, and “child slave” become high frequency words that used to describe Chinese parents. Second, parents only emphasize on intelligence quotient and ignore the emotional quotient completely. Spending a lot of time on intelligence quotient and ignoring the emotion aspects, many children in China are delicate. And third, parents used to tell their kids to follow disciplines and traditions .
　　And to American method of family education, it also has its positive and negative sides. American parents know the importance of emotional quotient, so they coordinate the emotional quotient with intelligence quotient. Thus, children can have a comprehensive development. So we often see that parents advise children to attend more sports activities, social works, or go to the church, from which children can perceive the spirit of competition, cooperation, and moral outlook. Moreover, American parents prefer to cultivate the initiative, creation and leadership of their kids, rather than persuade them to follow traditions. As we can observe, those two merits of American family education are just the insufficient points of Chinese family education. Hence, in order to have a better systematic way to raising children, Chinese parents can draw lessons from American way. Of course, besides those merits of American family education, it has defects. First, parents give a lot of choices to children, which means children may have less self-discipline because he or she knows there always another way to help them to escape from a hard situation. Second, to the contrary of Chinese students, American students' learning foundation is not that firm. The reasons why there exists such distinction between American family education and Chinese family education are due to different political and economical background, which has effected a country for hundreds, or even thousands years.
　　In modern society, with the help of lots of scholars, family education has already permeated into various aspects of human life. Everyday, parents have to confront it. And the differences between Chinese and American family education call forth more and more people to concern how to improve family education. So in in order to build a better family education method, as aforementioned, we should take note of two combinations, being a leader and being a member, being a bookworm and being the wise.