Set mealtimes. Set your table. Sit at your table to eat.
As much as possible, set mealtimes in your home. Sometimes that seems almost impossible, but try to do so for at least one meal each day. It doesn’t even have to be the same meal every day. Maybe on weekends it’s easier to get everyone together for breakfast and during the week everyone gathers for supper. Make sure everyone stays at the table until everyone is finished eating. It’s not only good for your health to slow down while eating, it’s a great time for conversation, to get to know what’s going on in each other’s lives.
The point is to gather at the table with no distractions.
Set your table. Even if it’s a tray. In our travel trailer we don’t have a table, but we both have trays. For our meals we pull out the trays, sit beside each other on the sofa, and eat.
Make family meals an event, a tradition.
Do you have mealtimes already in your home? Do you involve your kids in helping to set the table and clear it after the meal is completed?
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