Excerpt from The Girl and Her Home

This book deals with homemaking its problems and its ideals. It attempts to treat the subject from the point of view of high-school girls and boys by recognizing their present needs and interests with relation to their home life. Using these problems as a starting point, the book attempts to introduce pupils to the homemaking problems of the future.

It has been the purpose of the authors to present the subject in such a manner that the pupils will acquire right attitudes toward homemaking. This is the most important objective in the study of homemaking as indicated by recent tendencies in home economics education. It is thought more important to develop the right point of view and an understanding of per manent values in homemaking, rather than to emphasize housekeeping skills. It has been the intention to present this study of homemaking on a managerial and problem-solving basis, and not to stress the acquisition of information or skill for its own sake. In every instance, the pupils are encour aged to organize their ideas and to use what they have learned in new situations. It is only by building ideals, teaching principles, and developing the ability to apply them, that we can help young people to achieve success in making homes.

Another objective in the writing of this book has been to present the various phases of homemaking as a unified whole, and not as separate and isolated units of work. For purposes of handling the subject in clear-cut fashion, the material has been divided into seven major problems. But every effort has been made to make the students conscious of the interre lation among these problems, and that together, not separately, they constitute the problem of homemaking.

In order to deal with homemaking on the managerial level and as a unified whole, it has been assumed that students will have had some previous study in food, clothing, housekeeping.

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