Comments on: How to Use Family Meetings

By: How Use Family Meetings | Growing Kids Ministry

How Use Family Meetings | Growing Kids Ministry — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:17:37 +0000

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By: Lindsey Whitney

Lindsey Whitney — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:53:33 +0000

Great article. I run a blog about children’s ministry and parenting, and I would love to be able to share this article with my readers (partial post on my site with link to full article on your site). Let me know what you think! Thanks for sharing.

Lindsey @ GrowingKidsMinistry.com

By: Andrea

Andrea — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 05:00:40 +0000

What a timely article. I just told my family yesterday that we should have family meetings and the ideas that came to mind. I wasn’t exactly sure how it would work with 2x 6 year olds but now reading this article I am convinced we should do it and I am looking forward to it. Thank you for the great ideas.

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Partner Meetings — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:41:07 +0000

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By: How to Use Family Meetings

How to Use Family Meetings — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 11:03:49 +0000

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By: FoxyKate

FoxyKate — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:48:58 +0000

We do this in a way – my kids are 8,6,6, and 3. We go one by one and greet the next person in line, and then there’s a question of the day that everyone answers – usually it’s just “what was your favorite part of the day?” but on weekends when we are all able to have breakfast AND dinner together, there’s “what are you looking forward to this weekend?” or “what’s exciting coming up this week?” I like the idea of brainstorming problems together, and I’ll have to find a way to introduce that.

Sometimes we still have problems with people talking over each other. I find if we start the meeting early in the meal we have a chance to circumvent that.

And it’s absolutely true that 2 year olds will participate – we didn’t realize that the youngest had processed what we were doing at the table, until one day she got upset that we had skipped over her. So we asked what her favorite part of the day was, and she adopted a very quiet & polite voice and said, “Um, my favorite day part was going to MomMom’s house!”