Don't Forget Your Home Economics

Home Economics Can Count for some of your Home School Required HOURS!


Be sure to include Home Economics in your Homes Schools! I am a graduate from the School of Home Economics and have a BS degree in Foods and Nutrition from Ohio State University. One of the last courses I took in college could have some good ideas for home schooling your children and have fun at the same time. It was Home Management and the responsibilities of managing a home were broken down into various areas such as fulfilling the management tasks of being a: cook, waitress, housecleaner, laundress, child care etc. Can you image getting a college degree to teach how to manage your home? Well, it's true! Ohio State University has the classes to prove it. These are really old fashioned terms but describe what you do as a mother and manager of a home. Teach your child how to sort laundry and look for stains and how to use a washer and dryer without overloading it with clothes or soap. It can be lots of fun teaching by example and they will see it differently and you might find that you will have help with your laundry. This also will give them credit towards that Home Ec class. Switch the various tasks around and one week you might show them how to plan a weeks worth of meals and them have them help grocery shop for those meals. Get creative in your teaching. I'll be blogging with ideas for your Home Economics class and include Food and Nutrition ideas for your Home School. Keep in touch and remember; "Who knows how to run a house better than you mom?"

Jane