a. Education for home living should be a part of the
 general education of all children in the elementary
 grades.
 b. Education for homemaking should be a part of the
 general education of all youth and adults both in-
 school and out-of-school.
 2. Each program in home living and homemaking edu-
 cation should be planned cooperatively by the teacher,
 the participants, and others concerned.
 3. The program in homemaking education should be a
 comprehensive one including all areas or phases of
 homemaking with specialization as one progresses and
 one's interests and needs are specialized. It should in-
 clude the skills for living-social, manipulative and
 managerial.
 4. The program should be organized on a year-round
 basis with seasonal emphasis on those aspects of home-
 making that are seasonal.
 5. Education for homemaking should help people:
 a. To solve their own home and family problems wisely.
 b. To live graciously.
 c. To recognize problems that affect home and family
 life both in one's community and beyond it and to
 participate in an action program which has as its
 goal some solutions to these problems.
III. Homemaking as a Vocation
 We believe that:
 1. Homemaking as a vocation merits recognition as one
 having dignity and prestige.
 2. The quality of homemaking influences the success of
 every individual in his living as well as in his making
 a living.

 DEFINITION OF SOME TERMS
 As a means of facilitating a common understanding of some
terms frequently used by home economists and other educators
the following definitions are given to indicate the connotation
that these terms have when used in this guide.

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