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Activity: 10

Visit your locality and talk with elderly people regarding their health problems, physical,
mental and emotional changes. Present it in the class.

Activity: 11

Prepare a short report on the steps and measures to be taken for proper caring of old
people. Analyze the causes of negligence and write a conclusion about it.

Summary

1. Family life education is an educational programme which is designed to support
young generations in their physical, emotional and moral development to make
them able to cope with temporal changes like adolescence, puberty and ageing with
an objective of living a better family life.
2. An educational process which assists the members of the family in their physical,
mental, emotional and moral development as they prepare for adulthood, marriage,
parenthood, ageing as well as their social relationships in the socio-cultural context
of the family and society is called as family life education.
3. Family life education provides practical guidelines for the solution of family
problems and better nurturing of children.

4. Family is a group of individuals having different age, sex, related by blood or
marriage, living under the same roof with the common provision of food, sharing
the responsibilities and other resources together.
5. Joint family is a group of individuals having different age, sex, related by blood or
marriage or adoption, living together in the designated role of father, mother, grand
father, grand mother, uncle, aunt, brothers, sisters and cousins with the common
sub-culture.
6. The family which consists of 1 or 2 adults and their children living together is called
nuclear family.

7. In joint family, good leadership, strong economic condition, mutual understanding,
feeling of sacrifice, compromise, etc. matter a lot.
8. The prime needs which are essential for our proper growth, development and
survival are called basic needs.
9. Those needs which are essential for career development as well as for happiness
and satisfaction are called additional needs. Love and belongings, esteem and self
actualization are additional needs in our life.

10. Responsibilities of parents can be defined as the efforts and contributions made by
parents for children’s physical, mental, social, economic and emotional development
so that they can become responsible parents and citizens and contribute for society
and nation.

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