Creating this special time during the family dinner hour is easier than you think.
It seems like a fading memory these days...everyone in the family gathered around the table for dinner and sharing themselves. With kids running to several activities and parents working longer hours, it's no wonder we can seem like a house of roomates just stopping by to change clothes and sleep.
Creating a special time for your family can be easier than you think. You need to be flexible and a bit creative and just remember not all family mealtimes have to resemble the Cleavers.
Please stop by my guestbook below and let us know what you do to fit in family meals. I look foward to reading it.
All great change in America
begins at the dinner table.
Ronald Reagan
The Family Table - Why Eating Together Is Important
Research has shown that children who take part regularly in family meals are more likely to have better eating habits, snack less on junk food and most importantly, are less likely to indulge in the use of marijuana, smoking or drinking alcohol. I believe this is do to the parents setting a good example with food (hopefully) and eating together can go a long way to keeping communication open.
How Often Does Your Family Eat Together?
Resources to Cut Cooking/Prep Time and Create More Quality Time
- Quick and Healthy Meals
- Pick up some quick cooking tips and techniques to create more table time and less cooking time.
- Cooking With Kids
- Site with tips to have fun and stay safe while cooking with your children.
- Kids Cooking Club
- Each month kids get a cool cooking project delivered right to their door.
- Food Network- Cooking with Kids
- Check out menus, recipes, and demos for cooking with the kids- including tips on pleasing picky eaters and raising a vegetarian family.
- Dine Without Whine - Helping Families Re-Discover the Pleasure of the Dinner Hour
- Great membership site- grab a week of free menus. For under $5/month, they will send you a months worth of menus and grocery lists. More benefits are explained on the website.
- Tasty Tuesday -Recipes From My Blog
- Every Tuesday is Tasty Tuesday at my blog. Stop by and say hello.
What Does Your Family Do to Create Time Together at The Table?
We encourage your feedback and opinions. And please feel free to share with us some of your stories about The Family Table.
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- Jewelsofawe Jewelsofawe Nov 9, 2009 @ 8:35 pm
- I like the family table!
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- BigMamaGuru BigMamaGuru May 27, 2009 @ 4:23 pm
- I couldn't agree with you more. In my family 65 years ago, we talked politics at the table. I am a politicoholic to this day. When I married 20 years ago, I got two fabulous stepdaughters who thought I was so weird for requiring family meals. Now they are in their thirties and thank me so much for my efforts.
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Great Dinner Time Family Building Resources
Fuel: Devotions to Ignite the Faith of Parents and Teens (Focus on the Family Books)
Amazon Price: $12.74 (as of 11/28/2009) 
The Advent Jesse Tree: Devotions for Children and Adults to Prepare for the Coming of the Christ Child at Christmas
Each Advent season we light our Advent candles (located on the table), and sing a Christmas Carol, read a Scripture and a devotional. It's much easier to use something already prepared, such as this.
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 11/28/2009)
Sticky Situations: 365 Devotions for Kids and Families
I gave this book to my sister to use with my nephews long before I had my own children. They loved it and used it at their dinner table to stimulate converstion.
Amazon Price: $10.19 (as of 11/28/2009)
Storybook Stew: Cooking with Books Kids Love
Just a precious and fun book! My boys love bringing the stories they read to life.
Amazon Price: $15.56 (as of 11/28/2009)
Fun With Kids in the Kitchen Cookbook: Healthy, Kid-Tested Recipes
Teach your kids that eating right can be lots of fun. For the preschool - grade 1 level. Delicious, fun, low-sugar vegetarian recipes. Health and nutrition tips, too.
Amazon Price: $16.99 (as of 11/28/2009)
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Maureen Kellis is an internet marketer with over 20 blogs and websites. She loves Squidoo and is working hard to earn "Giant Squid" status.
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