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Wayne Boatwright
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On Mon 27 Feb 2006 02:03:43a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Nathalie
Chiva?
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:41:24 -0600, Melba's Jammin'
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>In article <[email protected]>,
>> Nathalie Chiva <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> But then I have no TV, and I was raised on good food properly served
>>> and a tradition of conversation at dinner, I just can't imagine it
>>> any other way. It doesn't have anything to do with formality, it's
>>> family or couple life. Call me old-fashioned.
>>> Nathalie in Switzerland
>>
>>Call you grounded and wise. This is an interesting story from a few
>>weeks back in the Minneapolis newspaper:
>>http://www.startribune.com/462/story/230069.html I knew a young woman who
>>grew up in a family where everyone's attendance was required for Sunday
>>dinner. Required. No sports, dates, or jobs were allowed to interfere
>>with that family time. Required. I think that mom was pretty wise,
>>too.
>
> Thanks for the link. It boggles my mind that there is a need to have a
> program like that, but if it works, great!
> Even if I'm alone I sit down at the kitchen table. I take a book
> though.
To some extent I can see the need. With both parents working (often
different schedules), children's extra-curricular activities that
sometimes start well before the normal school day or end well after it, a
common meal time for all to sit down together could, indeed, be a
challenge.
--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
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BIOYA
Chiva?
> On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:41:24 -0600, Melba's Jammin'
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>In article <[email protected]>,
>> Nathalie Chiva <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> But then I have no TV, and I was raised on good food properly served
>>> and a tradition of conversation at dinner, I just can't imagine it
>>> any other way. It doesn't have anything to do with formality, it's
>>> family or couple life. Call me old-fashioned.
>>> Nathalie in Switzerland
>>
>>Call you grounded and wise. This is an interesting story from a few
>>weeks back in the Minneapolis newspaper:
>>http://www.startribune.com/462/story/230069.html I knew a young woman who
>>grew up in a family where everyone's attendance was required for Sunday
>>dinner. Required. No sports, dates, or jobs were allowed to interfere
>>with that family time. Required. I think that mom was pretty wise,
>>too.
>
> Thanks for the link. It boggles my mind that there is a need to have a
> program like that, but if it works, great!
> Even if I'm alone I sit down at the kitchen table. I take a book
> though.
To some extent I can see the need. With both parents working (often
different schedules), children's extra-curricular activities that
sometimes start well before the normal school day or end well after it, a
common meal time for all to sit down together could, indeed, be a
challenge.
--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________
BIOYA