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Modern Vision of Family Dinner |
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2009-09-24
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Modern Vision of Family Dinner
Dear Dr. Laura:
I just had to share this with you. Since I shop at a particular grocery store a lot, they send me these little magazines with coupons and stories and such. One of the little articles this month is headed "Family Dinner with a twist: how to shake up your routine." It's about ways to get your family interested in eating dinner together, and I guess it's supposed to be written by an expert.
But here's how it starts:
"A busy mother of four and successful entrepreneur, Maria Bailey is constantly on the move. But on Sunday nights she always stops long enough to sit down to dinner with her family. 'Our weekly family dinners have been a priority for 15 years in our house,' says the host of the popular Mom Talk Radio show. 'It's' a quiet time in a very busy world.'"
I guess so. May be I'm spoiled, but it seems to me that someone whose expertise is allegedly being a mom should be chagrined at eating with the family only once a week, not proud. To me, family dinner shouldn't be a special occasion it should be an everyday event. Now, it's fine if she wants to be an entrepreneur and all that, but I don't think she should make "mom" her field of expertise if her "momming" is so secondary to her "entrepreneuring."
Maybe it's me, but it seems like family these days is getting pretty devalued, especially when we pay people to devise tips and tricks to get the family together when her own family only gets together four times a month.
Kerry
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