Dinner Talk, Dinner theme,Stay at home mom, Famous Family Quotes, Family Communication, Healthy Snacks, Classical Music Radio

Workshop 1: Building on the Rock

If there is no discussion or sharing of thoughts and feelings in our. . . homes, we are missing out on many glorious opportunities to learn from each other. ~ Richard G. Moore

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Dinner Theme Building on the Rock
More dinner themes

I. The universal need for dinner talk
Experts speak for family meals
Want good kids?
Sharing family meals strengthens family bonds
Family Day – A national effort to promote parental engagement as a simple, effective way to reduce youth substance abuse and raise healthier children.

Young adults are embracing a godless relativism, according to a recent study. What is to be done?
(Barna Group, AFA Journal, June 2007, p.16)

TV and moral decline
reading at risk
Parents need to make the offline world more appealing than the online world. ~Candice Kelsey, author of Generation Myspace
Net Smarts


II. For Parents
Family Proclamation
Example
Famous Family quotes about Mothers
More Famous Family quotes on Parenting
Parenting with Respect
Teaching values

III. Home Environment
Harmony
Classical music radio
How Music Reflects our Values
Refined Heavenly Home
Shalom in the home

IV. Activities
Family Gardens
Healthy Snacks
TV alternatives

V. Parables
Dinner Talk— the Universal Parable
Parable of Two Families
Parable of the Leaven

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