Family Resource Management Education Term Paper Essay

Family Resource Management
Name
Institution
Family Resource Management
Family Resource

Learning method

Expected outcome

Financial resources

* Heads of families attend a financial conference predicted over by a financial consultant
* Discussion groups comprised of different families to share each other’s experience in managing finances
* Testimonies from families that have had a financial crisis before and overcame them

* Individual families understand how to utilize the little money they get
* Learn how to adjust whenever family cash inflow fluctuates.
* To know that different families face different financial issues and know how overcame the issues

Physical resources

* Testimonial from affected families.
* Talk from a marital counselor on the importance of tolerating each other in marriage.
* Group discussions among different families to share their stories.

* Discourage divorce and family misunderstandings.
* Learn how to tolerate each other’s faults in marriage

Emotional resources

* Group discussions on the separation of family members due to work transfers.
* A lecture from a family counselor on the need to adjust and adopt new family developments that cannot be instantly dealt with

* Learn how to control emotions.
* Learn how to emotionally adjust to impromptu family separations

Spiritual resources

* A lecture from a spiritual counselor
* A lecture from a church pastor and Muslim imam on their experience in spiritual work.
* Inter spiritual group discussion on dealing with spiritual challenges.

* Learn how to utilize spiritual believes for the general good of the family
* Learn the importance of a family that is brought up in a common spiritual belief.

Mental resources

* A talk from a family counselor in the need for an independent decision-maker
* Testimonials who how individuals adjusted from making decisions with their partners into making decisions by themselves.

* Individual family heads learn how to make good decisions by themselves

Cultural resources

* Intercultural discussion groups to understand different cultural backgrounds

* Learn to appreciate everyone’s culture.
* How to adjust in cases of cultural changes like moving and settling in an area with a different culture

I decided to work on Family Resource Management. This is a very interesting and sensitive area that I think needs to be emphasized much more than the other FLE areas. This is because the basis of any life existence starts from the family set up. When two people come together to live as a husband and a wife, they need to smoothen everything within that is touching them first hand. These issues are the cultural, financial, spiritual, emotional, environmental, and physical among others. This is the reason I think family resource management should be given prominence over the rest of the family life education content areas. (Jamison et al., 2017)
Every family needs to know the kind of resources at their disposal. These resources, however, are never permanently there. Finances fluctuate in differe...