(Course 153)

Preparation for Home Building

The establishment of .a home and family is a complex, delicate undertaking.
Jt requires for its successful accomplishment a preparation that touches
every aspect of human life and knowledge. This preparation should be an
essential part of the education of every American young man and young woman.
-For purposes of our discussion, we will consider some of the basic prepara-
tionsnecessary to meet modern conditions.

1. Economic preparation. While it may appear materialistic to
begin with the economic side of the home, it is surely practical.

 

ae Cost of home keeping. The first step in a sound prepara~
tion for home-keeping is an accurate intelligent under—
standingof the actual cost involved in a well-organized,
well-conducted home, This means a working knavledge of
budgets and budget making with particular reference to
relative evaluation, One of the separate projects of this
course will be the cmstruction and criticism of budgets
for various planes of living.

 

be Support of the home. A cmsideration of the preparation
of one or both mates to produce a sufficient income seems
obvious. It mens forethought in choosing and securing
the necessary education and experience to attain the level
of income desired.

 

References: Bossard, Je He Se — The Protlems of Social Well-Being, Chaps. 2-6-6
Groves, E. R. — Social Problems of the Family, Chap. 5.

Rich, M. BE. -— Pamily Life Today, Part I, Chaps Ze

Abel, Ms He - Successful Family Life.

fs Educational preparation. The scope of the educational preparation
is a bra@d@ one. It may be divided for purposes of discussion into
general and special.

a. General preparation. The health information necessary for
ie wise administration of a home which has been presented
to you in the courses on Constructive, Defensive, and

Individual Hygiene may be oitlined here as:

(1) Constructive hygiene, with its information with
Toference to the enatmy and vhysiology of the cell;
relation of heredity to health; and the determining
powers of nutrition, excretion, exercise, rest, and

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{2) Defensive hygiene, with its information of the

 

-Fnjuries that can come to health by excesses and de-
‘ficiencies; by mechanieal means; by physical means;
through living micro-organisms and the remedies and
methods of prevention which science has provided for
them.

{3) Individual hygiene. To the above may be added the
asic faets about the indivadual, including an
understanding ef the sources of his health practice;