Learning to manage a home is one of our important roles in life. The home where we now live in is a very good laboratory for us to learn home management.
The family is composed of members with different needs, interest, and capability. To make each member happy and contented? theae needs should be satisfied. The family should provide opportunities by which the members can be develop their interests and make use of their capabilities. There are thing that need to be done to obtain this development.
●The home should be made clean, orderly, and attractive to make it an enjoyable place for the family.
●Food must be nutritious and delecious to ensure the health of the family members.
●Clothes have to be laundered to be wear clean.
●Money should be earned to buy the various needs for the family.
●Children need to be educated so they will have a better future.
All those should be done cooperatively by all members of the family. Each member, including the youngest, should share in the resposibilities of the family. The process by which a family uses different available resources to attain its goals called home management. This involves a series of activities which should be done with little time, money and efforts.
here are some guides;
● What is to be done?
●Who should do it?
●Why should it be done?
●When should it be done?
●How should it be done with less time, money and efforts?
Home management is the natural outgrowth of human association in home. When the family has stablished itself and members begin to work together in common purpose, needs arise.
Home management is directed toward the realization of those goals. Every family aims to have a satisfying family life, which means gratification of needs and desires of all family members. However, those needs and desires change through the passage of time. The impact of those changes in the family gives arise to conflict, which affect the relationship of defferent member of the family. Each member should see to it that the factors which contribute to the development of conflicts are manage perfectly.
*Parents work hard to earn enough money for the edution of their children.
》some parents engaged in several jobs.
》some parents seeks employment in the other countries just to earn enough money.
Home management steps:
●planning
●short term goals
●organizing
●controlling
●evaluating
●goal
Home management involves a series of activities to realize a goal.