It is extremely important to ensure the participation of children when carrying out social education for children. However, the participation of children is gravely insufficient in reality and legal protection is urgently needed. Despite prescriptions for the protection of the participation rights of children in social education by relevant laws, deficiencies do exist, such as over generalization, insufficient coordination and adjustment, so it is hard to effectively protect the participation rights of children in social education, which is inconsistent with the requirements of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Therefore, we should renew ideas, perfect relevant laws, promote the systematization of relevant laws, strengthen the operability of relevant laws, and in particular, the protection of participation rights of rural children in social education should be enhanced.