Comments on: Family Dinner http://infinitelearners.com/family-dinner/ exploring the extraordinary relationship between personal & planetary well-being Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:25:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: sarah http://infinitelearners.com/family-dinner/comment-page-1/#comment-49 sarah Sat, 11 Apr 2009 04:48:11 +0000 http://infinitelearners.com/?p=181#comment-49 Hi, I found you through The Organic Sister and had to comment with a smile about this post. I too have angsted in the past about our lack of family dinners. We usually eat dinner while reading books. More often than not, we are eating different foods. When one of us is finished, we get up and move away. We are homeschoolers and together all day every day. To us, family dinner time is a restful quiet replenishing time. It has huge value for us in that. Hi, I found you through The Organic Sister and had to comment with a smile about this post. I too have angsted in the past about our lack of family dinners. We usually eat dinner while reading books. More often than not, we are eating different foods. When one of us is finished, we get up and move away. We are homeschoolers and together all day every day. To us, family dinner time is a restful quiet replenishing time. It has huge value for us in that.

]]> By: TheOrganicSister http://infinitelearners.com/family-dinner/comment-page-1/#comment-32 TheOrganicSister Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:27:12 +0000 http://infinitelearners.com/?p=181#comment-32 i think family dinners are more important when kids are at school and parents at work all day; when families need some down time to reconnect and just find out about each others day. but the fact that his work schedule islight and the kids are home, i think negates the necessity of stressing over sitting down at a predetermined time. the point is connection and you have that. we tend to do family dinners at the table. i like the habit of all three of us sitting down together at once since we're pretty independent during the day. sometimes things change and we eat seperately or one of us isn't home for dinner or we eat at the coffee table or the breakfast counter. i think if i became all nazi-regime about a tradition i enjoyed it would take the enjoyment out of it. also it's nice to have some days where we miss that tradition only to come back to it after a while. i think if your mother's voice creeps in again, you should mention all the times you *do* spend together and not worry about that whole 15 minutes you don't. or you could just start a family breakfast. they tend to be easier to prepare for different palates anyway. :) ~tara i think family dinners are more important when kids are at school and parents at work all day; when families need some down time to reconnect and just find out about each others day. but the fact that his work schedule islight and the kids are home, i think negates the necessity of stressing over sitting down at a predetermined time. the point is connection and you have that.

we tend to do family dinners at the table. i like the habit of all three of us sitting down together at once since we’re pretty independent during the day. sometimes things change and we eat seperately or one of us isn’t home for dinner or we eat at the coffee table or the breakfast counter. i think if i became all nazi-regime about a tradition i enjoyed it would take the enjoyment out of it. also it’s nice to have some days where we miss that tradition only to come back to it after a while.

i think if your mother’s voice creeps in again, you should mention all the times you *do* spend together and not worry about that whole 15 minutes you don’t.

or you could just start a family breakfast. they tend to be easier to prepare for different palates anyway. :)

~tara

]]> By: L.J. http://infinitelearners.com/family-dinner/comment-page-1/#comment-31 L.J. Tue, 31 Mar 2009 00:44:38 +0000 http://infinitelearners.com/?p=181#comment-31 There is more to life than dinner. It is lovely to share food with others. It is nourishing to connect as a family. Do the two have to be combined? I don't think so. I've seen your family and think you're doing just fine without regular family dinners! There is more to life than dinner. It is lovely to share food with others. It is nourishing to connect as a family. Do the two have to be combined? I don’t think so. I’ve seen your family and think you’re doing just fine without regular family dinners!

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