The dining room

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candles, china, dining room, Family, food, Table, teenagers

    Study after study shows a correlation between thriving kids and families who dine together. Research has found that parents’ presence in the home at key times – especially at dinner – was associated with reduced incidence of drug use, sex and violence among teenagers.

• A small dining room leads to big conversation.

 

• Keep candles on the table and use them, for all occasions.

 

• Occasionally, serve breakfast on your best china (in the dining room, of course!)

Excerpted from “Home: Celebrating the Spaces of Your Heart”

Kitchen tips

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Family, fellowship, kitchen, Memories, New Home, Table

 

 

• Remember the great moments in the kitchens of your life…food prepared for you or by you, fellowship with your friends and your family.
• Choose kitchen cabinets like furniture, deliberately. Design low cabinets for children. They can pick out their own cereal and learn to put away dishes.
•  Make your kitchen big enough to hold a table – a place for kids’ construction projects as well as a place for guests to make memories. 
•  Most home accidents happen in the kitchen. Keep a first aid kit there.

 

 Excerpted from Home: Celebrating the Spaces of Your Heart, written by Renee Garrison and Tom Szumlic