Do you know your children well? Would you like to?
It’s really pretty interesting that we live in a time when communication is easier than ever yet we communicate less than ever. Social media has made us less social and our children are being affected by our tech-driven lives.
A few weeks ago, I encouraged us all to take the UNPLUGGED SUNDAYS Family Challenge. (I hope you sweet moms joined in on that one!) But if you’re anything like me, my unending ‘to-do’ list begins to haunt my heart and those kind of commitments get put on the back burner of my life.
If that has happened, I’d like to send this little reminder to unplug. I didn’t say it would be easy, but I want you to know it will be worth it.
Today, I want to encourage you to sit down to dinner with your family and take some time to talk with one another. Real conversation. Not just a text message or an email. But real life, face-to-face, heart-to-heart conversation.
I’m not really great at coming up with a dinner plan for you, but I’d like to help you kick-start your conversations with 40 Table Talk Conversation Starters for the Family.
- Share some of the things you learned in Sunday school that can help you today?
- If you could plan your perfect vacation, what would it be?
- If you couldn’t use any of your electronics (phone, games, television, iPads), what would be something you could do with your time?
- What’s your favorite holiday and why?
- What’s your favorite Bible verse and why?
- What are some things that you don’t understand about the Bible or about God?
- What’s your favorite family tradition that we all do?
- If you could go anywhere in town, where would it be and why?
- If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be and why?
- If you only had to go to one class for school, what class would it be and why?
- Dog, cat, fish, gerbil? Which would be your favorite and why?
- What’s your favorite book and why?
- If you could meet anyone in history, who would it be, why, and what would be one thing you would like to ask them?
- What are some of your biggest fears?
- If you could plan a perfect day, what would it be?
- Who are some of your closest friends and why?
- If someone gave you $100, what would you buy first?
- If you were stranded on a desert island, what 3 things would you want to have with you and why?
- If you could do any job in the world, what would it be?
- What would be the one job you would never want to do?
- What are some things that have made you cry and why?
- What do you like to laugh about?
- If you could help others and you had no financial limitations, what would you do?
- What would you like to be remembered for? What are some things you can do to begin making that happen?
- Who are some people you know that really need help? (It could be financial, healthy, family needs, encouragement, etc…)
- If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
- What is Christmas and Easter really about? Why do you think people make it about things other than Jesus?
- Other than your family, who are some people you trust and would go to for advice?
- What makes you happy when you’re having a bad day?
- How would you describe our family?
- What is your favorite family memory?
- If you wrote a book, what would it be about and what would the title be?
- What does the Bible mean when it says, “For we walk by faith, not by sight.”? (2 Cor 5:7)
- What are some things you’ve prayed about lately?
- How can the Bible help you when you face difficult times and difficult people?
- What are some talents, gifts, abilities or passions that God has given you? How can you use them to glorify Him tomorrow?
- What’s your favorite song, book, food and color?
- How can failure make you stronger and why is it so hard?
- What does this quote by Catherine of Sienna mean, “Be all God created you to be and you will set the world on fire.”
- If you could change anything about yourself what would you change? What would you change about our family?
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How about you? Do you have dinner with the family? What are some table talk conversation starters that you would add?
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