#2 - Habits on Mealtime

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Introduction: 

• Habits we keep make our child. 
• Your habit on what you do when you wake up determines your next step with your child. 

Today's points to remember: 

• p. 54, 
• Create rhythms of conversation at mealtimes, 
• Sit down, at the same time, in the same lace and eat together, 
• p. 55, "Keystone Habit"
• when we commit to certain smaller rhythms, a lot of other rhythms fall into place. 
• p. 56, "Liturgical Lense" 
• p. 58, 
• communing, not consuming is the household's center of gravity...not extracurriculars,...these things must revolve around the family.  
• p. 59, "Liturgical Lense" - because it is spiritual formation and of course, worship
• Candle, Christ is light
• Take hands
• Then we pray
• Passing dishes practices delayed tratification
• complementing the meal - power of encouragement
• withholding criticism - practice virtue of silence because lots of things we think aren't worth saying.  
• Spills - practice forgiving. 
• Waiting - we practice sticking around even wen we don't want to
• Help clean, reset the kitchen - gift of communal life 
• p. 62, "Hospitality" 
• blessing is always outward, not inward
• practice of inviting the stranger in
• p. 63, entertaining vs. hospitality
• entetrtaining is looking your best,
• hospitality is opening up into the unvarnished mess.  
• Exercises on pp. 66-68.  

Turn on the video so you can recap what we just discussed.  Habits of the Househodl, Habits on Mealtime.