Monthly Goal:

Today I helped my kids clean their room.  It was really more for me than it was for them but things look and feel SO much better now!

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Today’s Activity:

Turn tonight into a learning dinner.  While eating teach your kids about proper etiquette and how to behave while eating in public.  Turn this into a game if you can to get them more excited.  You could even come up with a secret silly word that will help them remember how to act when you are out at a restaurant.  You could even refer to each other as Sir and Mam.

Note:

If you want to have them dress up in nice clothes for this dinner it may help them sit more still.

Evaluate:

This ended up being a lot more fun than I thought it would be.  First off I told them that Bruce Wayne and Princesses eat at really nice tables and they are very proper when they eat.  I asked them a few thinking questions before we started, “If you pull on the table cloth what do you think will happen?  Should you wipe your mouth on your sleeve?  What should you wipe it on?  How do you properly ask for more milk?”  Then we got started.  I even set the table with our wedding china and a table cloth.  A table cloth is a HUGE deal for me.  In the end Max asked if we could do this every night.  We focused on using nice words and not interrupting so Max loved that he got all of our attention when he was telling a story.  We loved listening to Elese talk about her day because it really didn’t make a lot of sense but it sure was cute!  Not only was this a great teaching moment for the kids but I was reminded that dinner is about the kids too, not just getting in the necessary calories and catching my husband up on the day.

RECOGNITION!

Amy taught her kids about the Olympics and watched some with them.  You my friend are two steps ahead of me…that’s what we have planned for Saturday.