There is SO much more that goes into cultivating quality Family Dinner Time than simply chopping vegetables and popping things into the oven.
The health benefits that come from eating dinner together are real, but so is the stress of coordinating it all if you don’t know all the secrets.
Fear Dinner Stress No More!
Here’s how to make your Family Dinner Time much more successful:
Today has been a great example of NOT being prepared……
I forgot it was picture day. (How do you forget it’s picture day?!) We had to find and fill out picture orders for four children, give two boys a haircut, throw together four outfits with whatever was clean, and hustle everyone out the door before 9am.
Every mom wants what’s best for their child. It’s up to us moms to take a mountain of propaganda, social pressure, and generations of other people’s experience to sort through what that actually means. What is best for MY child TODAY?
Then add siblings to the mix and you have a world class juggling act going on. Every minute of every day.
Today was our elementary school’s Dr Suess read-a-thon in the gym. Pintrest wants to see selfies of happy parents reading to kids eagerly listening, sitting on a cozy blanket snuggled up with their favorite plush creature.