When it comes to Family and Consumer Science the thought of understanding how a family supports
each other. Understanding what families go through and how they work out each situation that is
handed to them. The profession of family and consumer science is about empowering individuals,
strengthening families, and enabling communities. All because of family and consumer science the
development of personal and social materials is used to answer questions from the well being of a
person to the development of a child.
Flemmie Kittrell was a stately home economics pioneer who stories that has gotten told. Being a woman
and an educator made it hard for her to go forward with the information she found in home economics.
She was the home economics teacher for thirty years at Howard University where she tried to keep
home economics ongoing. While working with home economics students she decided to include child
development and parent education, which started a school nursery. With so many achievements one of
her major achievement was developing the College of Home Economics at the Baroda University in
India.
An event of Family and Consumer Science for me would have to be when they create programs to help
families with their children. From Head Start Programs that would aid parents with their children while
they were at work. Thinking of a family with four children and both parents work in order to have a
stable household. When the parents are at work they will need someone to look after the children.
Sometimes family members would not mind given out a helping hand, but to a certain point, they will no
longer want to keep the children because they have responsibilities of their own as well. Thanks to the
daycare programs and Head Start programs parents in today’s time will not have to always depend on a
family member.
Another important event would have to be nutrition and dietetics guide. The world not having no
guidance on how much calorie intake they should have would cause a quite few of obese people in the
world. People not caring for themselves because they do not know what is good for them and what is
bad for them, this is where the nutritionist comes in at. All because of a nutrition guide that everyone
can eat a balanced meal and make sure that what they are eating can help their bodies. When it comes
to a nutrition guide it should be used in an everyday lifestyle in order to maintain a healthy life.