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“[A
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us, as busy moms, to take a mental break and
visualize that special place. Take note of
the sights, sounds, and smells. It is
important to continue to do this until
relaxation is felt. This will help greatly
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Featured
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It’s
About Time for a Family Meal
by
Jolene
Philo |
Family mealtime is
important. In fact, its importance is
becoming clearer as modern families abandon
the practice of eating together. Therefore,
even though mealtime and menus were
addressed in the December column, I am
revisiting the topic. This month the focus
is on why eating together is crucial for you
and your children.
Mealtime Truth
Observed
Family meals added
structure to my own life. They were the
center of my childhood. Three times a day we
gathered at the table even though my mother
taught full time. We ate together for two
reasons. First, it was economical and money
was tight on a teacher’s salary. Second,
mealtime provided company for my disabled,
homebound father.
So we ate
cornflakes together at breakfast. Dad fixed
cold sandwiches for lunch. Mom fixed a hot
supper though by age ten, my siblings and I
could do the same. We talked and joked
around the table. The look on Dad’s face
during meals told us they were the highlight
of his day. He loved to eat, but this was
about more than food. Just as family meals
provided structure in my childhood, our
presence at the table gave structure and
meaning to his very long days.
My
childhood experiences were so strong that as
a mom, I insisted on a family meal every
day. Some nights, when my husband worked the
evening shift, the kids and I ate without
him. Some nights, when I had late meetings
at school or attended a conference, they ate
without me. Sometimes, breakfast or lunch
was the only time we could eat together, so
that’s what we did. But every day, there was
a family meal.
It wasn’t always easy
and it wasn’t always perfect, but the impact
of that practice was clear when our college
daughter came home from her freshman
semester in December. Though she hung out
with friends, she scheduled her holiday
activities around supper. “I want to eat
with you,” she said. “That’s what I missed
most at college.”
Mealtime Truth
Proven
Recently I read Miriam
Weinstein’s book, The Surprising Power of
Family Meals (Steerforth Press, 2005). The
author presents reasons for the decline of
family mealtime. Most of them you can
probably guess: parents’ work schedules,
kids’ activity schedules, television and
divorce. She lists the benefits of mealtime
cited in a number of research studies. The
benefits include:
o Lower incidences of smoking, drug use and
teen pregnancy
o Positions children to do better in school
o Passes down of ethical, familial and
religious heritage
o Lowers rates of eating disorders and
obesity
o Builds children’s literacy, vocabulary and
conversational skills
o Teaches manners
o Promotes resilience in children
o Promotes enjoyment of other family members
That’s quite a list. Weinstein never
states that family mealtime guarantees these
benefits. But she suggests that making
adjustments so a family can eat together is
an investment with the potential for high
yields.
The book includes study
results and anecdotal incidents that
strengthen her position. She examines two
parent and single parent families, as well
as different socio-economic levels and
cultures. Though her roots are in Judaism,
she explores the importance of family
mealtime in several faiths, including
Christianity. Her insights make the book
worthwhile reading.
Mealtime Truth
Applied
But my subjective
observations and Weinstein’s objective study
results can’t do anything without action
from parents like you. As a mom, especially
as a work-at-home mom, you can give your
children the gift of a family mealtime that
will reap benefits for the rest of their
lives.
As my family history shows,
doing so isn’t always easy and it isn’t
perfect, but it can be done. Here are the
strategies that helped our family eat
together at least once a day:
o Plan
your meals ahead of time. Go to the December
column, It’s About Time to Get Cooking for
ideas about how to get started.
o Be flexible. If your husband works
evenings, eat breakfast or lunch together.
If he gets home in late evening before the
kids go to bed, have a family snack time.
o Take the television set out of the room
where you eat.
o Limit the number of activities your
children participates in at any one time to
free up time for family meals.
o Complain to those in charge when your
kids’ activities are scheduled during
mealtime.
o Have a family scheduling meeting once a
week. Write all activities on one calendar.
Then schedule mealtime for when the most
family members can be home.
o Have the kids help plan menus, prepare
meals and set the table. The more they’re
involved, the more they’ll be invested in
mealtime.
When your family sits down
to eat, begin take a moment to share
spiritual food with your family before
digging in. Bow your heads and offer a
blessing. When you thank the Father who
gives you food to eat, children to nurture,
a family to love and a Savior who guides,
mealtime blessings multiply.
Always remember that you are the mom. You
have the power to make each
family mealtime a blessing. By eating
together each day, you will send those
blessings forward into the lives of your
children, their children, and their
children’s children.
Kind of gives you an appetite for a family
meal, doesn’t it?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Jolene Philo is
a freelance writer and speaker who lives in
Boone, Iowa. She shares her house and her
home office with her husband Hiram, daughter
Anne, and dachshund Abby. You can learn more
about her at her website,
www.jolenephilo.com.
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Minnesota
Wild Rice Soup |
Boil one small
box of wild rice which takes about 45 minutes
to cook and then drain it. (Save the rice
because you will add to soup when you add
the water.)
In a soup kettle melt one stick of margarine.
Into the melted marg. put
1 clove garlic, chopped
3 TB onions, minced
3 stalks of celery, cut small
3 large carrots, cut small
Cook (but don't brown) on very low about
10 minutes.
Then add one cup of flour.
Stir and cook about two minutes on low,
but don't burn.
Then add three quarts of water, ten chicken
boullion cubes, the wild rice
that has been cooked and drained earlier,
and two cups of cooked turkey or chicken,
diced small.
Simmer on low for at least two hours or
put into a crock pot.
When you are ready to serve add a pint of
half and half fat free and then allow the
soup to heat up again.
Serve with a few silvered almonds on top
for a great texture contrast.
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As every
parent knows, kids have a knack for leaving
their fingerprints on everything. Now they
can use this incredible skill to crank out a
whole mess of adorable cards.
MATERIALS:
Paintbrush
White acrylic paint
Paper plate
Colored card stock
Black and pink markers
Time needed: Under 1 Hour
1. Use the
paintbrush to spread a thin layer of paint
on the bottom of the paper plate -- this
will be your ink pad.
2. Have your kids dip their thumbs into the
paint and print them on the card. Their
thumbprint will be the bunny's head. For the
ears, have them press down only half of
their thumb to make a long, skinny shape.
3. After the paint dries, they can decorate
the face with markers, adding whiskers,
eyes, and a nose.
4. Use a black marker to write "Some bunny
loves you!" on the front of the card.
Tips:
Even a really young child can make the
thumbprints. A parent or an older child can
offer to help out with the features and
writing.
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Featured
Book
I
LOVE to read!
Each week you'll find
a new Christian book here! |
 It
is truly an honor to have the opportunity
to share some of my personal thoughts and
experiences as a new author with you, Jill,
and the Christian Work at Home Moms bloggers.
I am so blessed to see the work you are doing
to help and encourage each other!
There are so many gifts lying dormant in the
lives of women—just waiting to be discovered
or understood. I pray not only that my book,
Nana’s Bible Stories will
be encouraging to the children in your life—but,
also that my personal story will be of encouragement
to many of you as you pursue your calling.
Why do you
believe it is important to introduce our children
to the Bible when they are young?
ROBERTA: I do believe, and it is also scripturally
true, that if you train up a child in the
scripture, and encourage that child to have
a personal relationship with God, then when
he/she grows up they will truly not depart
from it. I have done this, and seen the results.
I can truly say that all my children, and
their children, know the Lord!
If we can promote the Bible as interesting,
exciting, etc. then children will want to
know the content. I want my stories to be
exciting and truthful, so that my book can
serve as an introduction to the Bible, and
they will want to read more!
We need to reach kids when they are young,
when their minds are open to accepting new
concepts, characters etc. Look at how easily
young kids can pick up new languages. When
I was five years old I went to a Welsh school,
where no English was spoken. I could choose
to hide in a corner, as I did the first day,
or jump in and learn the language. I chose
to learn, and learn I did!
The minds of children are so open, and accepting.
When kids learn the Bible at an early age,
it teaches them great values, and greatly
influences the development of their character!
I think it would make such a positive and
wonderful difference in children’s lives if
they were required to learn Bible stories!
The actress,
Jane Seymour, and Christian artist, Sheila
Walsh, each provided narration for your book.
How did they become involved?
ROBERTA: I do appreciate the relationships
we make in our lives. God puts the right people
into our lives in the right time! I loved
Jane Seymour’s beautiful voice and a good
friend sent the book to her. She liked the
stories and agreed to do the narration because
of our shared passion for children.
It was a similar story with Sheila Walsh.
She also loved the book and agreed to do the
narrations.
I loved meeting these two lovely ladies, and
can hardly believe how wonderful they were
to do what they did for me, and what a wonderful
job they did!
You are truly
“Nana” to many young people – including those
outside of your family. You have even challenged
other Nanas to become more involved. Why do
you think it is important for Nanas to become
involved in the lives of young people?
ROBERTA: I absolutely love and adore my children
and grandchildren. But I have had the privilege
to meet and be involved with so many kids
outside my own family. It is so important
for us, either as Nanas, or Nana figures,
to be involved with kids. I believe they need
us, and we have much to give.
There are many kids out there, who are lonely
and unloved. I really pray my book will allow
me to touch the lives of many of these children,
to love on them and encourage them. There
is so much we can do, and we can truly, with
a compassionate heart, be the hands and feet
of Jesus in children’s lives.
How has becoming
an author changed your life?
ROBERTA: I do laugh at this question, as I
never dreamed that I would become an “Author.”
God has truly surprised me!
I have entered into a world I knew nothing
about. The world of writing, publishing, editing,
etc. and it has been very exciting. I have
met many, many great people, and traveled
to many places I have never been!
I do believe that becoming an author has brought
tremendous excitement to my life. I just love
to write stories, and I find myself looking
and hearing things now in a new way, and finding
a story in so many things I see and hear!
I now have become the “busy” one of the family.
My family is now asking me“…and when are you
traveling again?”
What words
of encouragement would you give to other women
who have been stay at home Moms, but now have
the time and want to use their gifts and talents
to start a career or business? Is it ever
too late?
ROBERTA: Well, first of all, it is never too
late. So I say to all you wonderful Moms,
go girl go! I say God has placed wonderful
gifts inside of you, which some of you may
or may not be aware.
I did not know I had books inside of me! So
I know God will take some of you by surprise.
He will take you on a great adventure! Some
of you know already what you want to do, and
have obvious gifts that others can see.
Just give your life over to Him in a new way,
and ask Him how to proceed in your new career.
He will answer you!
 Thank
you for allowing me to share a part of my
life and calling with you. If you would like
to learn more about me or my book, please
go to www.nanasbiblestories.com.
You may download one of my favorite stories,
The Butterfly and the Cross—the story of the
crucifixion as told through the gentle and
tender eyes of a butterfly. I have also included
a special devotional for the story which you
may share with your children this Easter season.
Cuddle up with a child and enjoy!
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