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Dinner at Home

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You eat every day, but are your meals restful? Do they deepen your relationship with your spouse or children? It’s increasingly easy to scroll the phone during lunch, or grab takeout for dinner after working late. But dinner is a golden key for our own health and happiness, and the health and happiness of those we love.

If we choose to be reliably and intentionally present to our spouse and children at dinner, it will powerfully impact our relationship with them today, and shape our children's identity for the future.

This course is designed to guide families, especially fathers, in crafting more meaningful mealtimes in the home, starting today.
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Take dinner to the next level.


Dinner at Home features short videos, self-examination questions, and simple-action items you can use to radically change meal times in your household.

This mini-course will help you: 
  • use meal times to develop deeper relationships with your loved ones
  • close the gap between work life and home life
  • confidently develop healthy rules for your family's dinner time
  • commit to more fruitful conversations at the table

Contents

Dinner at Home: The Missing Key



Let's get started. Read a quick how-to on getting the most out of Dinner at Home, then dive in.
How to Get the Most from Dinner at Home
    Watch: The Missing Key
      Reflect & Resolve
        Read More: The Missing Key

          Dinner at Home: Regular Presence at the Table



          Concrete resolutions, made and followed through on, change lives. One of the most powerful resolutions you can make is to be intentionally present to your family at the dinner table. Here's why.
          Watch: A Father's Presence
            Reflect & Resolve
              Read More: A Father's Presence

                Dinner at Home: Taking the Lead in Manners



                Human eating is never just feeding. What happens at the dinner table is a very different reality than what happens in the pig pen. We live the human difference in and through manners. Here's how to set them for your table.
                Watch: Make Manners Happen
                  Reflect & Resolve
                    Read More: Make Manners Happen

                      Dinner at Home: Cultivating Conversation



                      The dinner table is the primordial place of rich conversation for young and old alike. But if our dinner table is to be a place of great conversation, it will require something of us. Here's what you can do.
                      Watch: Make Good Conversation Happen
                        Reflect & Resolve
                          Read More: Make Good Conversation Happen
                            Invite a Friend to Dinner at Home

                              *BONUS CONTENT*



                              Enjoy this special bonus content for LifeCraft members.

                              More Reflections on the Gift of Eating
                                "Food is not the center of life, as though providing the reason for living. But it is the center of life, as providing the natural context of daily living together as human persons. To get the realm of food and eating right should be a central concern in our home. This will actually foster getting most everything else right too." - John Cuddeback