Around the Table Connecting with Your Family at Mealtimes eBook Sharon Fleming
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There is no better place for good communication, fun, and family togetherness than around the dinner table.
Sharon Fleming is convinced that spending time together as a family is vital to every area of our children’s lives and to keeping the family whole. We all love to eat, so spending time around the table is a natural place to instill spiritual, social, and family principles into our children that will stay with them all their lives.
You are invited to join the Flemings at their table and see that the process can be fun! You will leave “full” of ideas and practical, biblical wisdom that you can implement at your next family mealtime!
Around the Table Connecting with Your Family at Mealtimes eBook Sharon Fleming
I bought and read this book some time ago, remembered it fondly, and just ordered another copy. We can no longer assume that families eat together. The trend is moving in the opposite direction. This book reminds us of the importance of family times, especially at meals. Even psychologists are beginning to see the importance of this issue. A wonderful book (with many helpful ideas) to give as a gift to any young mother.Product details
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Around the Table Connecting with Your Family at Mealtimes eBook Sharon Fleming Reviews
This book is a great reminder of a persons life and her family and how being able to keep family meal times alive. It proofs that family meal times are essential for children and parents to stay connected. And why not? Food and family are two really great things to combined!
Sharon communicates what she lives and believes about family togetherness at mealtimes through stories of her own life (childhood and raising her children) as well the lives of others. It is so practical and enthusiastic that she leaves you really wanting to get your family together for a meal and try out some of her ideas. Her blog is a real inspiration, too. ([...]
Do texting, video games, extracurricular activities, and work schedules make regular family time in your family a challenge? This book is a useful resource for every family - any size, any location.
Although the book is inexpensive, its value will multiply for decades. With only 80-pages, it can be read in one afternoon while the kids are napping, and the reader can have at least one new idea to try by dinnertime.
It is loaded with principles that can make quality mealtimes fit any lifestyle. The principles have been tried and proven for over twenty years by the author's family. She includes many creative and practical ideas tips, all simple to do with little effort.
Around the Table has the potential to change families and give a solid heritage to carry into future generations.
I'm excited to be the first to review this book! I love the book Around the Table by Sharon Fleming and highly recommend it. This is a must read for families. (In fact, I bought this book for every family in my local fellowship!)
Sharon relates through stories and practical advice how to raise a godly family. She says she's addressing one aspect of the Christian family, the time around the table, but really it's so much more. As you read this book you will see the tremendous value and potential of meal times to enjoy the love of family, to instill Christian values, communication skills, manners and godliness. Sharon will inspire you to set your priorities, start new traditions and have fun as you press forward in raising your family. She deals honestly with struggles and difficulties and offers many ideas to help in those areas. Consider Sharon your personal coach sitting next to you urging you on as you raise your family.
I love this book because much of what I learned about God and life was learned around the table growing up. That specific table was built by my grandfather and could seat four or, after the leaves were added, twelve. It was there I learned the love of family, the love of God, the love of the brethren, the love of the Word, the love of hospitality, the love of fun and more. Today I have that table and use table time for building authentic relationships where love is. I would like to see those traditions continued and generations go on for God. I read this book and was encouraged to press on and be creative. I hope it will do the same for you!
Sharon has an ongoing ministry through her blog [...]
It's so easy, in the busy-ness of life, to get caught up in other things. Pretty things, important things, even good things. What do we think about when we rise, when we're sitting or walking along the way, when we lay down at night? Are we consumed with things of this world, even good things?
I confess I didn't have a lot of hope when I first sat down to read this book. I thought it might be helpful for others, but thought it probably wouldn't offer much for our family. After all, things that "work" in "normal" families, don't usually work for us. The structure of our days often revolves around the uniqueness of my husband's disability rather than things we can "plan" and "count on." That makes meal times with all of us together difficult to accomplish.
But I came away renewed by her encouraging tone and the variety of creative solutions she has, especially
1.Hospitality can happen anywhere
2.Meals together, even when some are missing, have value and significance
3.Ideas for special celebrations (with Easter coming up, I think I'll try to make this meal more special this year)
4.Spending a little time ahead of time thinking about topics for deeper conversations (and she presents lots of ideas).
I found the first and second points especially encouraging. Hospitality is hard when you have a family member with chemical sensitivities, but I can be warm and hospitable in other situations too--it's not just about "home."
Meals together have great value--even if my husband isn't up when the kids and I eat, I can eat with them, and sit down with a cup of coffee or tea when he is up, and still share time together. And on days when we don't all eat breakfast or lunch together--I can take a few moments to sit with a child or with Dave. I can treasure those moments instead of lamenting that we are not "all" together, we can still make them special. I can create a home atmosphere that encourages together time, even if it's not always "all together."
This book has a lot of hope for families who struggle against the cultural constraints of our society to find time together--activities, work obligations, and so on. And in those moments we carve out, we can share windows into our faith journey, the One we are devoted to. I often hear parents asking for a "curriculum" to teach character qualities and those have value, but I think most character training happens in times together such as mealtimes. I hope when my kids are grown that we will be "Still Talking" and talking deeply about the things of life that are important.
I bought and read this book some time ago, remembered it fondly, and just ordered another copy. We can no longer assume that families eat together. The trend is moving in the opposite direction. This book reminds us of the importance of family times, especially at meals. Even psychologists are beginning to see the importance of this issue. A wonderful book (with many helpful ideas) to give as a gift to any young mother.
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