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Food and Nutrition
- Healthy meal planning
- Cooking and baking skills
- Sanitary cleanup
Entertaining guests
- Planning for an event
- Food
- Utensils
- Basic social skills for greeting and conversation
- Setting tables
- Arranging living areas/decorating for guests
- Allowing guests to help cleanup, or not
- RSVPs
Necessary house cleaning
- Kitchen organization and chores
- Bedroom organization and chores
- Living area organization and chores
- Bathroom organization and chores
- How to use a plunger
- External organization and chores
Laundry and clothing maintenance
- Basic laundry skills
- Ironing skills
- When to go to dry cleaners
- Clothing repairs
- Seasonal change-overs
Financial chores
- Budgetting
- Shopping skills
- Digital shopping smarts
- Brick-and-mortar shopping smarts
- Financial literacy course
Interior design and decorating
- Working with a budget
- Basics of aesthetics
How to be a good neighbor
- Interacting with neighbors
- Setting boundaries when necessary
- Community involvement
How to be a good family member
- Family rights and responsibilities
- Basic communication skills
Car maintenance
- What should you check and how
- How often does your car need maintenance?
- Where to go for maintenance
- Checking tire pressure/adding air
- Changing a tire
Communications
- How to answer a phone
- Business communications
- Complaint calls or emails
- Contacting your politicians
Basic home repair/maintenance and safety checks
- How to check the fuse box/circuit breakers
- checking batteries in smoke detectors
- cleaning lint trap in dryer
- how to find a chimney sweep if you have a fire place
- replace air filter in furnace
Some people include childrearing in their Home Economics courses. It would be our suggestion that those courses need their own credits to do them justice. Here are our courses on childrearing.
Human Development
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