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  Does Your Family Eat Dinner Together?

  by Scully in

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  interesting article from today's national post:.

  we don't eat together, and are paying for itfamilies in crisis: researchers say suppers apart may cause social ills misty harriscanwest news service.

  monday, october 17, 2005. .

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  Big Dog,

  I agree - I think it's a healthy thing to do in most circumstances. For me while growing up, eating dinner together was a very stressful event. My parents always hounded me on what I wasn't doing, what I wasn't being...they spent a lot of time arguing. It was basically the time to be critical of one another and duke it out. My husband on the other hand grew up in a household where that was the one time during the day where criticizing wasn't allowed. You could share your heart and mind and not worry about getting in trouble for it. Thus it opened up the kids to share what they needed to mom and dad. Thus, to this day, all three kids in his family are very close to their parents. (My hubby comes from one of those families that I always envied growing up!) It's the type of atmosphere I hope to give my child someday.

  Realizing I might step on some toes here...

  I think too many people think the "uncomfortableness" or "boringness" of eating dinner together, could be doing themselves and their families a disservice. If it's uncomfortable, get over it. Good things aren't always comfortable. But they become comfortable in time with practice. If it's boring, perhaps it's because the common ground isn't established to become interesting. How is that fixed by continuing to not talk? This is purely my opinion and...

  ...just food for thought...

  Andi *ducking*
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  Update on my sister friend

  by dedpoet in

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  i just had a visit from my sister friend from my former cong, one of the few who still speaks to me.

  the elders have been counselling her against having any contact with me, but she has chosen to ignore them.

  after the school and service meeting last week, they took her on one side and really laid the law down regarding contact with me, even threatening a reproof if she continued our friendship.

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  I hope all goes well for you and your friend!
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  Does Your Family Eat Dinner Together?

  by Scully in

  1. social
  2. family

  interesting article from today's national post:.

  we don't eat together, and are paying for itfamilies in crisis: researchers say suppers apart may cause social ills misty harriscanwest news service.

  monday, october 17, 2005. .

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  looks around to see who else is here

  Nope just me. Kitchen and living room all in one TV and table and computer all in one too

  Therefore all of me eats all of my meal in the room

  That makes just one less person to fight over the leftovers!
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  Mmmmmm bread machines

  by Lady Lee in

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  i have a bread machine and have been experimenting with it this week.

  my first breads were really dense and heavy.

  they were ok but definitely not great.. so i went to the books and they said the liquids need to be lukewarm not cold from the fridge.. so after yet another white bread heavy i just tried a raisin bread recipe.. ok i'm addicted.

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  Lady Lee,

  Oh goodness! Thank you so much for posting those - you are a DEAR!!! And that last recipe does look like an easy one. I realize this may sound like a dumb question, but how do you make that recipe in a gas oven? I don't have a bread machine,so I'll have to do it the old fashioned way. Does it give any details?

  Andi
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  Wedding Of Number 1 Son, Some Official Pics.

  by Englishman in

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  2. friends

  don't be late!.

  'cos the men in black.... .

  want to see this lady... .

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  (((((HL and Mike)))))

  Congratulations! I'm sure you're a fun grammy!

  The wedding pics are gorgeous by the way!

  Andi
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  Does Your Family Eat Dinner Together?

  by Scully in

  1. social
  2. family

  interesting article from today's national post:.

  we don't eat together, and are paying for itfamilies in crisis: researchers say suppers apart may cause social ills misty harriscanwest news service.

  monday, october 17, 2005. .

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  Scully,

  This is something that Mozz and our small group (at church) discussed at length yesterday. We find when we DO sit down to eat, it's on the sofa in front of the TV. So the 8 people (4 couples) in our group challenged each other to sit down together (with no TV!) and have an actual dinner at the dinner table at least THREE times this week. We're studying in our Sunday School class how much time TV robs from our lives...so this is our little "lab" to see what else we accomplish when we eliminate some of the TV watching our lives. We're finding our schedules increasingly busy, so the idea of having children is totally overwhelming to me right now. I can barely remember to feed my cats, how on earth am I going to keep track of a kid???

  I'll let you know how it goes this week!

  Andi
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  The RatMan cometh!!! LMAO, You have got to see this!!!

  by Elsewhere in

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  ratman!!

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  OMG, Else! That was the freakin' funniest thing I've seen in a long time. But I know if it were me, I'd be peeing my pants too. LMAO!!!!

  Andi - who loves a good prank class
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  Conventions & "Apostates"

  by patio34 in

  1. watchtower
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  just throwin' this on the table:.

  who are those people outside of the conventions every year with signs?

  we always called them apostates, but who knew?

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  tyrone,

  Welcome to the board!!! You're making quite a judgement of a group of people you don't even know. Now that's Christ-like, eh?

  Actually, you'll find we're a harmless group of people trying to heal old wounds and find the spirituality we never experienced as JWs. We hope you find some interesting information on this site and make a friend or two in the meantime. Stick around and see what you might learn. I promise we don't bite. Hard.

  Regards,

  Andi

  Edited to add: The person who started this thread and most of the people who've responded to it are long gone from this community. Please notice you're "resurrecting" a thread from over 4 years ago.
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  "No Apologies is no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses"

  by No Apologies in

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  sometimes i just don't know when to keep my big mouth shut.

  today i think finally said enough to get da'd.. for those of you just tuning in, a recap: about 2-3 years i came to realize everything i had been taught as a jw was a load of steaming turds.

  since then i have managed to fade away more or less, without incident.

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  ((((Noap)))) I'm so sorry about this. Stories like this just make my blood boil.
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  Mmmmmm bread machines

  by Lady Lee in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have a bread machine and have been experimenting with it this week.

  my first breads were really dense and heavy.

  they were ok but definitely not great.. so i went to the books and they said the liquids need to be lukewarm not cold from the fridge.. so after yet another white bread heavy i just tried a raisin bread recipe.. ok i'm addicted.

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  banished,

  I'm not actually wheat intolerant, but gluten-intolerant. It's something I'm just going to have to live with...it's a disease called Celiac. I wish it were a simple allergy that I could take a pill or just phase out of my diet and come back to later. Unfortunately, many Celiac patients have serious health issues from malnourishment if they don't cut the gluten...I don't want to take the risk.

  In the bread maching cookbook I have they have recipes for gluten-free breads.

  Lee, I think this is the problem. When I asked her about her recipe, she said she just substituted gluten-free flour for the regular flour. But you can't make gluten-free breads like that. There are other ingredients necessary to make it taste good. So what she really needs is a gluten-free recipe, not just gluten-free flour.

  I think if I had more time on my hands I really would venture out and make some myself. She just truly seems so happy to do it, I just don't want to hurt her feelings. I was thinking maybe I could say something like, "I've heard this recipe is really good. It has some strange ingredients in it, but if I got those for you, would you be willing to try a new recipe for me?" Might this work? Outside of making my own bread of course.

  Andi