Episode Transcript:
I want to talk to you just a little bit now about family meals. They did a survey years ago, and I don't remember the exact percentage, but a very large percentage of Texas inmates. When asked what they thought they missed when they were being raised, the number one answer off the charts was eating together as a family. They perceive that children that ate together with their family had a lot better shot at life.
And one of the reasons they ended up in prison is because I never had that family closeness around the table. I want to encourage you to eat as a family. Turn off the television. No cell phones allowed, no iPads make a meal, even if it's a simple meal. If you're having sandwiches and potato chips, it doesn't matter. But get everybody to sit around the table.
Everybody to hold hands. Do what my family has done. We played Halo for a long time. Halo? What's the best part of your day Low? What's the worst part of your day? My kids ended up naming that happy crappy, but they loved it and they have great memories of it. And so we made a real effort to make sure that as often as possible, if we were all sitting in the house or even if we weren't all there, we're going to sit around that table.
We're going to put the food out on the table, share some chores, although a lot of times those all got dumped on Mom. Take the time to pray before the meal. Let others pray if that if they want to. And they're not scared to do that. And then just start talking about each others day. Another thing you can do around that table is if it's birthday time, a special day, make sure you go around the table and everybody says something positive, maybe two or three rounds about the birthday person gather around the table.
I know a man who raised some very successful sons. And I said, How do you do that? And he said, I'm not real sure. But I think it's because every Friday night we had no holds barred. We all sat around the table and anybody could say anything they wanted to say with no repercussions. And he said, sometimes we had to swallow awfully hard, but it sure benefited our boys.
Gather around the table. God bless.
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