The dinner table
What’s going on at your dinner table? It’s said that a family who eats together has children are less likely to do drugs and turn to crime. Maybe at the meal there’s a prayer. Perhaps conversations, some intense, discussing school, government, or plans. Whatever the discussion, the family is communicating and together.
Families who take the time to grocery shop and prepare meals rather than eat at fast food retaurants make sense. Home cooked tastes special. Those who have eaten mom’s homemade lasagna or meat loaf know the difference when it’s not hers. Children who chop and cut the vegetables for the salad, or slice the potatoes are learning much, and the parent patiently guiding is too.
Manners at the dinner table don’t just happen. “Don’t talk with your mouth full” and “Please pass the salt” are parents’ guides that effectively continue on, to men opening doors for women to pass through first, and teaching respect for others. Learning the placement of utensils, glassware and napkins can begin with children as early as three, and it is a life tool. Picking flowers from the garden and adding to that table is another.
A prayer to God for the thanks that Americans are blessed provides calm and appreciation. That prayer might be as short as “Thank you God for this food, this day, and the love and health of our family.” It is the understanding that there is more than this wonderful earth and all that it provides.
A family eating together and sitting at the table rather than in front of the television is a gift families should consider giving to one another.
Bubba
12:30 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
What if the family is eating deer?....
...that can't read....
....and didn't see the signs before a truck hit it?
DAMN YOU OBAMA!
DLM
9:51 am on Friday, February 22, 2013
Do the deer know the proper placement of the utensils? The proper placement of the wine glass? Are the deer discussing ways to enhance the human's life? Kathleen is an bloviating idiot.
Geenie NaBottle
1:26 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Q: Why did the deer cross the road?
A: Duh... So he could sit down at his little deer dinner table with his deer family for freshly chopped greens & vegetables!
Geenie NaBottle
2:30 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Satire my left foot! Yeah it became "satire" after everyone started laughing!!!!
Geenie NaBottle
3:18 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
If and when God doesn't want deer impacting your life lady he will make them all barren so until then suck it up and realize that God obviously has no problem with their proliferation or your trivial inconvenience!
And BTW Gen 1:28 reads "And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
It says nothing about wiping them off the face of the earth b/c they are "inconvenient" to your excessive, glutenous lifestyle. And since you are quoting the Old Testament, I hope you don't eat shellfish incl shrimp crab & lobster otherwise I'd like to remind you of Leviticus 11: 9-12....
Celia Ac
5:18 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
There's a gluten-free liberal conspiracy? And all this time I thought celiac disease was a medical condition. Apparently all I had to do was become a conservative and I can eat bread again! Praise Jesus!
Wally Hayman
9:12 pm on Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Gosh, it's a family dinner right out of a Norman Rockwell painting in the 1950s.
Back when families could enjoy dinner together because not every adult member of the family had to work a second or third "swing" job to stay alive. Back when unions were strong and the rich paid taxes at a rate of 91% - not Romney's 14%. Back when the wealthiest CEOs made 10 times an average worker's salary, not 1,200 time their salary and a worker's salary actually increased with time. That used to help pay for the good crystal and decorative linens.
Now we sit in front of the TV during our brief food breaks to find out whose teachers and first responders are getting fired, whose plant is moving to China and whose water supply is being poisoned by frackers (although flames coming out of your faucet and earthquakes under your house are strong clues).
But the Lord works in mysterious ways and I'm sure those deer signs you don't understand are part of his greater plan.
veritas
7:52 am on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
One time I tripped and fell in a mud puddle. People pointed and laughed at me, mocking and ridiculing me.
Scrambling to save face, I said that I was merely satirizing those who trip and fall in mud puddles.
Nobody believed me. They knew I was lying.
The end.
Sue Lawson
3:17 pm on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
lol
Bard
10:33 am on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
I worry everyday that those deer and other animals such as squirrels and turtles are going to try to take the right to home school our children away. We should teach them how to read the Bible.
alwsdad
1:49 pm on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Thank you Avon Patch for a new must-read, the incoherent ramblings of Ms. Kathleen Wilhelm (and her much less charming but equally incoherent acolyte M. Brigitte). Is there anyway to get them on a more frequent schedule? My deer are always looking for new things to read.
WishIwereinOhio
1:55 pm on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
That's quite a family in the photo... I can't even see the table for all the chairs and people. And you know what else? No deer. Not a single one! Mission accomplished, humans!
Dick Barnicle
3:12 pm on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwW7h3r5mxo
Wally Hayman
6:56 pm on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
A great video. Ms Wilhelm has made it big.
But this follow-up article is just as much a gem, warning us that fast food restaurants and staggered family dinners lead to drug use, crime, spiritual decay and the idolatry of the TeeVee machine.
Ms Wilhelm appears to be on the same brain wave with deer but I must dispute some of her personal findings concerning dinner. First of all, while fast-food restaurants may lead to drug abuse and crime, just think about all "the gay" that was prevented when mobs of Palin's troglodytes rushed off to eat at the nearest Chic-fil-A. And as for Godlessness, I'm sure Kathleen wasn't vetoing the dinnertime viewing of my classic TeeVee re-run collection, "The Best of Jim Bakker and Ted Haggard." I always watch those two before eating when I have no one else to pray with.
Gee, I wonder if I'll ever run into them at Chic-Fil-A?
Probably not.
But truth be known, Kathleen's erudite treatise on family dinners has me stirring! The knuckle-dragger in me is ready to march for year-round Thanksgiving dinners at my local fancy-sit-down Denny's. Plus, Denny's has that wonderful history of refusing to seat the "wrong" Americans - like black FBI agents, and probably a president. Family dinners would be as pure as... well... a clean white sheet (with holes cut out for eating, of course).
Praise the Lord, and pass the peas!
Bard
5:32 pm on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Oh no the Boss has been brainwashed!!!! Reading his song lyrics clearly show his love for all things Republican. Maybe if he watches Fox News or listens to Joel Osteen, we can save him. At least he isn't like those commie Beatles. Back in the USSR!! That song should be banned!! I just thought of something scary, what if the liberal media brainwash Tom Selleck? Oh the humanity!
Mr. Sam
8:40 pm on Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Theory....M. Brigitte...is...wait for it...Mrs. Wilhelm....$5 says I am right
tom
10:28 am on Thursday, February 21, 2013
This women is great. i hope some one collects her greatest hits.
tgb1000
4:09 pm on Thursday, February 21, 2013
Hey where did all of M. Brigitte's comments go?
Wally Hayman
2:12 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
Down a rabid hole, no doubt? (no sic)
WishIwereinOhio
8:43 pm on Thursday, February 21, 2013
Drinks are on Mr. Sam tonight (well, maybe just one)
Nick Perry
4:55 pm on Wednesday, March 13, 2013
this is so damn funny yet so incorrect it isn't even funny..please show us unbiased links that proves this or wuit talking out of your ass:
"What’s going on at your dinner table? It’s said that a family who eats together has children are less likely to do drugs and turn to crime."