“Your children will be like vigorous young olive trees as they sit around your table.”
Acts 2:46
The Problem:
1. Families are spending less time together
USA Today, 6-15-2009:
--People are spending less and less time with their families even though they are spending more and more time with friends on Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc.
--During the first half of the decade, people reported spending an average of 26 hours per month with their families.
--By 2008, however, that shared time had dropped by more than 30%, to about 18 hours.”
2. Families are not sharing meals together
“For many American families, shared mealtimes have become less and less common. Regular family dinners have been described as one of the chief casualties of over scheduling. Perhaps dual earner families and single parents who work know better than anyone the struggles in finding time to eat together in a relaxed way.”
Angela Wiley, Ph.D.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2005
http//parenting247.org/article.cfm?ContentID=597&strategy=2&AgeGroup=4
3. Often, the meals families do share together are not “healthy”
“The food-court mentality—Johnny eats a burrito, Dad has a burger, and Mom picks pasta—comes at a cost. Little humans often resist new tastes; they need some nudging away from the salt and fat and toward the fruits and fiber. A study in the Archives of Family Medicine found that more family meals tends to mean less soda and fried food and far more fruits and vegetables.”
The Magic of the Family Meal
Nancy Gibbs; Sunday, Jun 04, 2006 Time.com
Do we understand the times in which we live?
I Chr. 12:32: “…the sons of Issachar who had
understanding of the times…”
How have the trends in society affected us and our family?
These notes are of Pastor Rick Sinclair’s message on Building Strong Families through the Family Table. In other posts, we will find out the “Steps in Reclaiming the Family Table.”
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