Health & Fitness
How Can Family Meals Save You Time Later…?
I know. You're likely thinking I'm off my rocker right now. The sad truth is that over the past 2 decades family meals have become in some households obsolete. Where is there a time where you can all be together?
I know. You’re likely thinking I’m off my rocker right now. The sad truth is that over the past 2 decades family meals have become in some households obsolete.
Sitting as a family allows for information sharing amongst parents and children, husbands and wives. Having effective communication and sitting down together to share your day’s events is an incredibly simple strategy that creates bonding and better relationships amongst family members. So much information can be exchanged during such a small amount of time, when that time is solely used for that purpose.
I know with traveling parents, business owners that work crazy hours and grueling after school schedules it seems almost impossible. I encourage you to take just 10 minutes and look over your schedule. Where is there a time where you can all be together? Then put that day on the calendar, even if only 1 day a week.
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For meal planning tips, you can review a prior post where I break down step by step how I manage to plan meals in our home.
You can even incorporate family meals while dining out at your local favorite restaurant. This is a great time to connect with one another and you don’t even have to do the cooking! Have you heard of the game where everyone puts their cell phones in the middle of the table? It’s called the “phone stack game”. The premise is everyone puts their phones face down in the middle of the table or stacked and the first one to peak pays the bill!
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We still have small children in our family so when we eat out, we bring along cards, Uno and activity pages. We try to go back to old fashioned games and not computer based ones. During that 1 hour meal, we really connect as a family.
In the long run, spending time and putting time into your relationships now helps protect against problems later.
Now go look at that calendar and with pen, not pencil, write in “family dinner”!
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