Hi lovely people! Happy new week and welcome to reading my article.
You know generally, one thing that renews love, bond between families, friends, an association, siblings and whatsoever that involves two or more people is Togetherness.
Coming together in a matter of minutes or hours goes a long way to reconnecting and spicing up whatever feelings that is left.
Now, talking about FAMILY, eating together at least once a day is the most appropriate thing a family can do or get themselves involved in.
This act shows nothing but love and you tend to see some issues been addressed on the same table after finishing with their meal.
It is understandable that survival means might not be making this a constant act especially in this part of the country I come from, as parents might not be back home on time whereas children are home and feeling famished already but this can't be the case all the time.
Using my family as an instance, my family and I practices eating dinner together even if the breakfast and lunch could not be possible due to the nature of work. This act do not only foster bond or good relationship in my family but as a means of preventing any bad habits that may lead to a bad incident.
We might be eating and one of us might wanna start a conversation or unintentionally bring up something because we only remember at that time and instantly my mum (no dulling woman) would snap us out of it with a statement "Iyen Lori ounje abi?" which means "while eating?" and immediately we go back to factory setting.
After eating, we're allowed to talk to any length, dad asking about each child's day to end up advising us if there's a need for a fatherly advise on what we passed through for the day and then we ask about his day as well.
There was a day my dad told us about a private car hitting his car, which they started shouting at eachother. He had to shout back at the man saying "You're barking" unknowing to him that the man is a military man and he had to speed up when he saw him bring out their normal whip popularly called Koboko and we all laughed tiredlessly at how he explained the whole escape even when he was supposed to stay and get his car repaired.
These and more were moments that last forever.
I won't say this is no longer happening but just not constantly happening like before all because each child is far away from home now due to work or marital reasons but in as much as we gather home, probably for a visit or for an occasion then we're definitely having dinner together or even breakfast and revisit the old times.
Families eating together do not only foster good relationship or bonding but it ensures that family members spend quality time together, they get to have time for good communication which they couldn't have when they were absent from each other's life at daytime and as we all know that communication plays a vital role in sustaining relationships.
Just like my family's instance that I gave earlier on, eating together enforces better table manners and it create lasting memories.
Enforcing this habit continually also deposit this same act in children's mindset to be able to do that as well with their families when they start having one.
Eating together is not destined for rich people alone because we are mostly tagging everything around money. Sure! Money is everything but like I do say, everything is not money as we can still create beautiful and cherishing moments for ourselves and families even with the little we have.
So Creating a great family with a healthy and loving habit has to do with our own willingness.
If it can't happen during the week due to nature of work, then we can try to make it work for weekends just to create that form of cordiality.
Not everyone is free from this table that is turning but the essence of these prompts for me is to see whatever aspect we're lagging behind while we write or reading other's articles to make amends.
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