Abstract
The article discloses the role of the cultural environment of a family as means of a child’s productive upbringing in the conditions of modern cultural paradigm of education. The novelty of the research consists in specification of concepts (productive education in a family, cultural environment of a family), in the characteristics of structural components of the cultural environment of a family, its importance for the implementation of productive upbringing in a family. The revealed features of productive upbringing, the factors caused by educational opportunities and educational activities of parents, the presented characteristics of a pro-social family, the maintenance of components of the cultural environment of a family (the confidential relations, joint work and creativity, the spiritual and moral atmosphere, the democratic forms of control, the comfortable material and subject sphere, the symbolical sphere of a family, family traditions) open possibilities of effective social and spiritual and moral development of a child.