Table Tricks

Since we just moved to a new house, we received a terrific house-warming gift (not including the very delicious homemade cupcakes from a neighbor, and my husband thought no one does that anymore) – but a deck of cards of questions appropriate for the whole family called Table Topics. To follow on to my blog from the other day about getting your kids to eat what is in front of them, the best way to achieve this is to not talk about what they’re eating!

Forget reverse psychology or any other tricks of the parent trade. Just get your kids involved and thinking about something else and having a real dialog. Even my four and five year old girls can participate in the questions posed by Table Topics. The best part about it – dinner has not only become relaxing, but entertaining! I can’t begin to tell you how much fun it is to have a lively dialog with your pre-schoolers and spouse.

Table Topic: What do kids know more about than their parents? It’s not just princesses and groovy girls, it’s what any good manager, psychologist, or believer in the “The Secret” would tell you – believe in your children and treat them in the way that you would like them to behave and those dinner-time woes may just fall by the wayside.