HOME AND FAMILY ARE SAFETY WORLD FOR EVERY CHILD

HOME SCIENCE

Home is the most significant single environmental influence on the child's development. The child's world is typically limited so the important influence on him springs from within the family. It is in the family that the child's foundation of good physical and mental development, healthy character and personality are laid down. Family living gives meaning and purpose to life and it provides the depth of experience that helps the child to appreciate the continuity of life. In a broad sense, it may be said that the home sets the pattern for the child's attitudes towards people, things and institutions. The child identifies himself with his parents, imitates their behaviour and learns to adjust to life as they do. Though the later influences modify the child's Home is the place the child comes back to with his experiences; it is the lair to which he retreats to lick his wounds, the stage to which he returns to parade the glory of his achievements, the refuge he finds in which to brood over his ill-treatment, real or fancied. In other words it is the place to which one brings the everyday run of social experiences to sift, to evaluate, to appraise, to understand or to be twisted, to fasten or to be magnified or ignored as the case may be. What a child learns during this period gives direction to his development. Early learning is thus critical in personality development and the boundaries and the contents of that learning are largely determined by home-1ife.

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