Imagine your family at dinner time:
You’ve got a pot of pasta cooking on the stove. Your sauce is slowly simmering and the garlic bread smells heavenly.
You’ve got your favorite song on and you’re singing along as you put the finishing touches on dinner.
It’s busy and chaotic and loud around you but you find yourself laughing with your kids.
Their craziness doesn’t seem to bother you.
Your kids help each other set the table without being asked over and over again.
They use their manners through dinner and you stay calm. There’s no outbursts or arguments or frustration.
You have a conversation at dinner about your day and there’s no competition for your attention or your affection.
And at the end of dinner, you realized everyone genuinely enjoyed each other’s company and it was a lovely family dinner.
And then you realize…this was a normal, regular, every day dinner, not a special-occasion family dinner where they’re on their best behavior for ten minutes.
Your kids treat each other like friends, like they really like each other, and it warms your heart.
Then they clear the table together and thank you for dinner.
Sound too good to be true?
Does this seem like a magical-unicorn moment?
Think this is only reserved for fairy tale “perfect” families?