SMMART TIME-OUT FOR TIDBITS: DINNER TIME
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I recently attended a seminar where Becky, a registered dietician, spoke to an audience of women about preparing healthy meals for the family. She also discussed the value of helping your family appreciate the importance of eating dinner together as a family. She had a few suggestions to help make dinner a special event:
-Let your child choose from a variety of fun tablecloths to set the table
-Use fun, colorful placemats- personalized to each person in the family
-Try using “school lunch” trays to serve dinner
-Set the table with different styles of plates, or a “your special” decorated plate, or special birthday plate
-Take turns pulling conversation starters from a “Conversation Pail” (“What do you like about school?” “If you could change places with your sibling for a day, what would you like best?” “What was the best and worst part of your day today?”)
-Read excerpts from books such as: 365 Manner Every Kid Should Know, Sheryl Eberly or 10 Minute Life Lessons for Kids, Jamie C. Miller or 100 Simple Secrets of Happy Families, David Niven
Here are some other ideas (more can be found on the “Studio 5” website at: http://studio5.ksl.com/?sid=1840540&nid=54)
-Place big utensils on the table (ladle, noodle spoon, tongs, spatula) instead of silverware
-Use chopsticks instead of silverware
-Feed the person on the left his dinner from your plate
-Food color in certain foods (red mashed potatoes for Valentine’s Day, green scrambled eggs for St. Patricks)
-Let your child choose from a variety of fun tablecloths to set the table
-Use fun, colorful placemats- personalized to each person in the family
-Try using “school lunch” trays to serve dinner
-Set the table with different styles of plates, or a “your special” decorated plate, or special birthday plate
-Take turns pulling conversation starters from a “Conversation Pail” (“What do you like about school?” “If you could change places with your sibling for a day, what would you like best?” “What was the best and worst part of your day today?”)
-Read excerpts from books such as: 365 Manner Every Kid Should Know, Sheryl Eberly or 10 Minute Life Lessons for Kids, Jamie C. Miller or 100 Simple Secrets of Happy Families, David Niven
Here are some other ideas (more can be found on the “Studio 5” website at: http://studio5.ksl.com/?sid=1840540&nid=54)
-Place big utensils on the table (ladle, noodle spoon, tongs, spatula) instead of silverware
-Use chopsticks instead of silverware
-Feed the person on the left his dinner from your plate
-Food color in certain foods (red mashed potatoes for Valentine’s Day, green scrambled eggs for St. Patricks)
Lisa
1 comment:
Hey Lisa,
It's Rachelle from the park. I am loving your blog, especially as a homeschooling mother! What fun ideas you have. I think we will start one after we come home from Walmart! Thanks Again. Oh yeah, forget trying to help me find other homeschooling moms for now, the more I thought about it, the more I'd like to wait until I know more about what I'd like to do with that!
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