You can identify experts at home and in the region whose skills contribute to building family life and community. Domestic crafts vary from home to home and regionally, and you will study domestic crafts around the state. You will examine how gender and age relate to domestic work and analyze where you fit in the scheme of work around the home. Work around the home is an integral part of domestic and family folklife, conveying skills, values, ways of behaving, responsibility, and connectedness . Gender and age often play a big role in assignment of tasks and responsibilities.
Households harbor master craftspeople, cooks, repair experts , caregivers, musicians, or gardeners.
Children learn traditionally by observation and imitation from everyone in their households. As in work outside the home, elements of play enter domestic work as well.