Home and Home Management

HOME - The place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household.
Home vs. House

The main difference between home and house is that a home is the place where someone lives and
where they have an emotional attachment to whereas a house merely refers to a building in which
someone lives.

HOME MANAGEMENT

Home management includes instruction in food preparation, laundry, housekeeping, living

cooperatively, meal planning, grocery shopping, and basic maintenance and repairs. It is basically the
responsibilities needed to be accomplished for one’s home to run smoothly.

Why is Home Management important?

 It is an essential component of family living.

 is the natural outcome of human relationship in the home environment.
 deals with the practical application of the principles of management to the home.
 is essentially the process of keeping your home running smoothly.
 is the process of overseeing and organizing the various tasks and responsibilities involved in
running a household.
 The purpose of home management is to make life easier and less stressful for everyone
involved.
 is the vital factor in every family contributing to the overall health, happiness, and well-being of
the family.
 those activities normally performed by a homemaker for the maintenance of a home's essential
services, including but not limited to activities such as meal planning, shopping, and bill paying;
any employee that is authorized unlimited access to a client's personal funds for home
management shall be bonded through the provider.

“When the family is established, management becomes one of the major responsibilities of the
family living.”

Benefits and The Importance of Home Management

1. Creates Routines & Consistency

 Implementing routines that create a whole home management system can also positively
impact your mental health.

2. Keeps the Family on the Same Page

 Your family is your team. So, when the family is on the same page and is helping one
another out, the load is lighter for everyone and things become easier!
 3. Creates a Home You Enjoy

 Sure, things aren’t perfect, but life isn’t perfect. You aim for ‘good enough’ and because you
know your home management is mostly on auto-pilot, getting to ‘good enough’ is a lot
easier than it used to be.

4. Teaches Your Kids Life Long Lessons

 Pay attention to what your kids may be interested in and get them involved as soon as you
see that spark in their eyes. Get creative when teaching them so they stay excited and
absorb everything you teach them.

5. Keeps Your Home Organized

 Sometimes getting started with these things can be very overwhelming, but once you’ve
found what works for you and your family, that consistency ensures your home will never
turn into a chaotic mess again.

THE QUALITIES OF A HOME MANAGER

To make the home management effective, each of the members of the family has his/her specific roles.
The home manager is the person who bears the main responsibility of home management. She is the
key person of the family, and the peace and success of the whole family fully depends on her. To bear
these huge responsibilities, she must possess some basic qualities after making remarkable efforts with
honesty and sincerity.

1. Intelligence - ability of understanding, analyzing, referring and making judgment on various

issues.
2. Enthusiasm - giving importance to any work, acting seriously and completing the work with due
attention, etc.
3. Understanding of human nature - to keep the home in order, there is a need to instruct the
children to do their jobs accordingly and there is also a need to take the advice of the elders
while doing something difficult.
4. Creativity - by wanting to make any change of the pre-planned action, the home manager will
use his/her imagination and creative power to make his/her home more attractive and well
arranged.
5. Judgement - ability of judgment helps an individual to lead a peaceful life in home and in
society.
6. Perseverance - willing to work continuously until they succeed.
7. Adaptability - the capacity to adapt oneself with the changing situation is termed adaptability.
8. Self-control - this quality will help the home manager to maintain a cordial relationship with the
family members.
9. Personality - should possess some other qualities like impartiality, patience, cheerfulness,
righteousness and flexibility