In the modern sense, housekeeping is the general name of family relations and their things. Home economics involves family business, family law, family style, income and expenditure, education, interpersonal relationship, the relationship between family and relatives, friends and neighbors, and so on. Housekeeping now generally refers to housekeeping services, including part-time, nanny, cleaning, nursing, hourly work, family relocation services and so on.
Source: Song "Epitaph of Mrs. Ling's He Family": "Home economics comes from uncles and uncles, but carefully assists their internal affairs, and each household is subdivided." Wang Mingduo's "Shangshu Festival, Tombstone, Yuan Gong": "Mrs. Gu is very humble in running a family and is public (Yuan Keli)." Fang Xiaoru's Book with Mr. Cai Ling in the Ming Dynasty (II): "Deacon Gao De, responsible for housekeeping, can be like a cloud." "Fragrant and Angry Companion": "Now my cousin volunteered to be a child and asked your love to take care of the housework."
Domestic service refers to the socialization, specialization and marketization of some family affairs, which belongs to the people's livelihood category. It is undertaken by social professional organizations, community organizations, non-profit organizations, domestic service companies and professional domestic service personnel to help families interact with society, build family norms, improve the quality of family life, and thus promote the development of the whole society.
Basic content of domestic service
1, general housework: cooking, household cleaning, laundry, gardening, etc. Generally, the service is mainly based on utensils.
2. Nursing work: Nursing is divided into several parts, with care and supervision for infants; Elderly care; Take care of patients at home or in the hospital; Nursing maternity and newborn, this service is the service of the new moon.
3. Family education: to cultivate children's study habits or intelligence, as well as academic-related counseling.
4. Family secretary: This kind of document file handling in family or family business, including purchasing, bookkeeping and other services.
5. Family security guards can be divided into two types. One is responsible for the maintenance and safety of household appliances such as water and electricity, electrical appliances and computers. This is also called a family technician. The other is responsible for the safety of family members, called family security.
6. Accompanying reading: This is a relatively advanced service. It is a kind of service to relieve customers' emotions, relieve loneliness and meet customers' psychological needs by accompanying waiters to talk with customers.
7. Housekeeper: it is to make comprehensive and systematic arrangements for family affairs, specifically arrange the daily work of other family nannies, and at the same time provide services such as preparing meals and guiding and beautifying the family environment according to the different characteristics of customers' families, and give guidance and arrangements in all aspects of life and family.