Changes in household composition and household life (ONS 2019) and the pervasive use of data-driven services is impacting on the characteristics and quality of home life. Remote working, online learning, platform-based consumption, telehealth, streamed entertainment and digitally mediated relationships are increasingly part of home life.

What happens to our homes once digital media become deeply and intimately inscribed into their spaces and rhythms? Do activities, relationships and roles in the household remain fundamentally the same, or do significant changes take hold?

There is much evidence that happy homes make for a happy society. Many factors contribute to either supporting happy and functional homes or undermine them. One of these, which is often overlooked, is the physical layout and design of houses and of the built environment in general (Coleman, 1987. Mehrabian, 1976).

Only a civilization focused on care can promote human flourishing and, consequently, happiness, and care should be the most significant thing learnt at home. Therefore home, care and happiness are essentially related, and all these three notions have our innate human vulnerability as their connecting thread.

The aim of this article is to present how the UpToYou educational program understands how emotional education of young children should be understood in the family environment during the first years of life.

Communities around the world face conflicting forces that affect the work-family interface.  New work dynamics as well as new care needs influence how individuals perceive domestic chores (Freedman, Cornman & Carr, 2014) and the developing and performing of the different homemaking skills.

Our contemporary world is marked by its admirably rapid technological advancements as well as its increasing sensitivity towards healthy living. There is a higher commitment to individual freedom with a complex digital connectivity and interaction so that spatial distances that could have limited communication are reduced to a screen-click.

Flexible work options can be considered a benefit for many people. One type of flexible work option is working from home. Many businesses do provide some form of flexibility for mothers and parents working outside the home but this is influenced by culture and geographic location e.g. Pakistan is slow to embrace working from home policies while in western cultures or in more developed states, there are people who advocate that work from home policies should become the norm.

Traditionally, the home has been regarded as a place of wellbeing and safety, notwithstanding the fact that, within it, unsafe practices can take place that endanger its inhabitants’ health. One such practice is the unsanitary handling of foodstuffs from the moment they are bought to when they are prepared, stored and eaten. So far this year, in Mexico City alone more than 182,000 cases of gastrointestinal tract infections have been reported by the city’s health services.

Technological advancement has continuously impacted on the level of physical activity in our world today. Physical activity is directly linked with health outcomes; hence, this exponential growth has prompted increased sedentary activities and encouraged inactivity. The 60 minutes moderate to vigorous recommendation of physical activity are not however met by young people. This is because of excessive time spent on screen based activities each day.