31 days, 31 questions, 31 answers - Day 3

I read an article by author, professor and theologian Don Whitney that listed 31 questions to consider for a new year. I decided that I will answer one question each day in January. Here is the third question, and my answer.

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3.      What's the single most important thing you could do to improve the quality of your family life this year? This has a simple answer, although putting it into practice will be more difficult. The single most important thing we can do to improve the quality of our family life is to eat dinner at the dining room table more frequently than not. We need to spend time with each other as a family and have discussions as a family. We need to talk about what happened during our days, our frustrations and triumphs, our dreams for the future. While it sounds simple, it may be more difficult to do. We need to get ourselves organized better for this to happen. We need to plan and schedule meals better. We need to decide to do what is best rather than what is most convenient. It sometimes is easier to eat a microwaved meal in the living room around the TV than prepare, cook, set the table and pull the kids away from the TV. But, we need this face-to-face time of bonding.