Home is the best place every one need to live.Managing it propery is the only option to make it a good habitable place.
Home management is concerned with the effective use of resources at our disposal.It also can be defined as the effective use of the availabe resources.
There are lots of factors that influence home management such as: Personality,healthy,organisation,family composition ,environment etc.
Home management also deals with food and nutrition ,fashion and fabrics.
On food and nutrition management one is focusing on how to plan ,prepare and cook meals for different people ,for instances infants ,elderly ,convalescents ,sick and vegetarians.It exposes one to have the knowledge on how to prepare these meals for the family.
Organisation is part of home management, it creates and maintains order in the household tasks and includes squencing and planning in all of implementing duties.When one is well organised , he /she can able to carry all duties in the home.It is then home management task that deals with organisation.
Home management deals with all health issues at home and members are taught on protecting one another,dealing with diseases ,pests control to reduce the spread of diseases through the vectors.
Health also include personal hygiene ,where a person is reminded to be well presentable,everytime including when preparing food for the family.
The clean environment awareness is carried on as people are encouraged to clean their houses and surrounding places.
In home management one is educated to have knowledge of fashion and fabrics.A child must have the skills of maintaining the available garments and sew the torn part ,so that can able to use the garment for longer time neatly and hems well maintained.Thrift work is important because you can able to use pieces of fabrics ,yarns ,hersians,papers etc.Inorder to make something that can be useful in the home.For example the use of bottle tops to make mats ,by so doing children are given skills to economise money and other valuable resources ,instead of going to buy new expensive things.
One should have the knowledge of choice when buying household utensils and use them carefully.
In general it is the behavioural change of attitudes to reduce misunderstandings,conflicts and manage family needs wisely.So it can be noted that it is very important to include home management in curriculum.
Home management cater for craft and art skills development .That's why it is very important to use it during leisure time or during hard times when not employed.You can create your own self employment when you sew and selling articles ,cooking and selling ,for instances wedding cakes ,catering services at weddings or decorating occassional events such as weddings and make your own money.
The community can benefit because you can make cheap,beautiful articles during your spare time.Again community members will render your services when you give them advice on how to arrange and plant flowers,vegetables for nutritional needs and decorating their homes.
As one has already agreed that home management is concerned with effective use of the available resources ,it can be also noted that one is also groomed on how to preserve and conserve foods, that are in season inorder to use them when they are out of season, because they will be rather expensive.
