Bringing Dinner to the Table
Don’t Let the Busy Life Get in the Way of Your Real Life
Life is busy and it can be hard for the family to sit down to the table together when you have teenagers running out the door, your spouse walking in from work or toddlers running around and infants crying. Though these can be trying times, it is very important to make sit down dinner nights where everyone is at the table eating together.
The reason families should eat together is because eating has always been a social function. Holidays, weddings, birthdays and anniversaries are all centered around food. People generally have a good time while standing around the appetizers waiting for the main course, I mean who could feel bad when their taste buds are enjoying the goodness of something tasty?
Quality Time
Sitting together as a family will give you time to conversate with each other and find out what is happening in each other’s days. If you have teenagers, you can be more attentive to their actions and personality shifts when you are able to spend quiet time eating together, this can help keep them off of drugs by opening the door for “talks”. Toddlers and small children tend to eat better when sitting with adults who are also eating, it seems to be a learning time for them when they are doing the same thing as those they admire most.
Pizza: $22, Dessert: $12, Family Traditions: Priceless
Create a family tradition at dinnertime. Choose a night where you have a special meal like pizza on Friday’s or a night when the kids get to help make the dinner. Children will appreciate this time with you even if it may not appear that way initially. Memories will be created and family traditions will be started.
