Gather 'round, as Chris and Jennifer take you through a heartfelt exploration of why the humble dinner table is the beating heart of family life. They kick things off with laughter, recounting Greysen's quirky trivia about Mike Tyson's pigeons and Rowan's cheeky attempts at sibling bribery. It's not just about the food; it's the togetherness that makes these moments priceless, shaping their family narrative one meal at a time. Their tales from the table are sure to resonate with anyone who cherishes those daily opportunities to bond and create memories.
As they peel back the layers of what makes a family tick, they touch on the commitment that's as essential as the secret ingredient to grandma's famous recipe. It's clear that carving out tech-free time to connect during meals isn't just about good manners; it’s a recipe for nurturing love, appreciation, and the art of listening. Chris and Jennifer are passionate about encouraging families to embrace this practice, ensuring that every shared meal enriches the tapestry of familial love.
Whether you're passing the peas or passing down wisdom, the dinner table is where futures are forged and identities are affirmed.
Gather 'round, as Chris and Jennifer take you through a heartfelt exploration of why the humble dinner table is the beating heart of family life. They kick things off with laughter, recounting Greysen's quirky trivia about Mike Tyson's pigeons and Rowan's cheeky attempts at sibling bribery. It's not just about the food; it's the togetherness that makes these moments priceless, shaping their family narrative one meal at a time. Their tales from the table are sure to resonate with anyone who cherishes those daily opportunities to bond and create memories.
As they peel back the layers of what makes a family tick, they touch on the commitment that's as essential as the secret ingredient to grandma's famous recipe. It's clear that carving out tech-free time to connect during meals isn't just about good manners; it’s a recipe for nurturing love, appreciation, and the art of listening. Chris and Jennifer are passionate about encouraging families to embrace this practice, ensuring that every shared meal enriches the tapestry of familial love.
Whether you're passing the peas or passing down wisdom, the dinner table is where futures are forged and identities are affirmed.
Welcome to the Love Works podcast. My name is Chris Duncan and my wife, jennifer and I are marriage coaches and ministers in our local church. We've been married for over 20 years and have six wonderful children. Over the years, we've experienced infertility, miscarriages, become parents, had career changes, fostered children and adopted triplets, which, among many other life experiences, have helped to shape us, our marriage and our family. We hope to share some of things we've learned to help others with their journey to have a successful marriage and a strong family, while keeping a focus on our faith as a guide. Thanks for listening and, as always, remember Love Works, so let's get to work. Welcome back to Love Works podcast. My name is Chris Duncan and I'm here with my smoke show wife, jennifer Duncan, and we are so honored you've chosen to join us today. Today is episode number eight. Episode number eight so crazy that we're already there in the second episode of 2024.
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Speaker 2:All right. So I'm up and it is time to do our what's that segment. What's that is a time that we take in our episode and every episode, to give you a little peek into the Duncan household and show you what fun we have going on here every day, and so we have some good ones this week. I'll let you go first.
Speaker 1:Oh man, all right. So I hope I didn't already do this one when I told Jen what I was going to do should I think you've already mentioned that? If I did, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:But it has been eight whole episodes. It has been eight whole episodes.
Speaker 1:But we also have six children by vocational marriage counseling. We do a lot of stuff, okay, so I could forget what I say sometimes. Anyways, back to the show. As I mentioned, and if you've been listening along with us, you know that we have six children and one of them is our 13-year-old Grayson, and he is a funny, funny guy. He has a really funny personality and one day we were driving Grayson Boston Boston is our oldest and we were just talking and out of nowhere, grayson just says I don't even remember what we were talking about. It was something completely different. What he's about to say out of nowhere, he says hey, dad, do you know that Mike Tyson has carrier pigeons? I was like no, grayson, I did not. The world did that thought come from? Oh yeah, it was hilarious. So now, every once in a while, we'll just throw that out there for talking about something. Our Grayson is the king of random. Like Jen just said, sophie's saying something random. I'm like hey, gray, do you know that Mike Tyson has carrier pigeons?
Speaker 2:So that's ongoing. What's that he has?
Speaker 1:that will forever. Lots of episodes of that.
Speaker 2:Mine is. It actually happened a couple of weeks ago and I had forgotten about it.
Speaker 2:I was doing something washing dishes or something and Rowan, one of our six-year-old triplets, came down and she is like all indignant and she's like Mom, harper and Quinn, her two sisters, they are not cleaning up like you told them. And I was like, okay, well, you know, I'll come up and check your room in just a little bit. She's like no, they're not doing it. And I told them, if they, let me play with them, then I wouldn't tell on them. But they said no, so now I'm going to tell on them. So I want you to go get them in trouble. She wanted justice because they didn't accept her bribe. So it happened so young I'm not sure how this happens this young, but yeah, she had a deal and she wasn't afraid to tell me that she tried to bribe them and now she wanted revenge.
Speaker 1:Except the bribery or hell.
Speaker 2:You had your chance. That's it.
Speaker 1:You had your chance, oh man. So today our episode is actually I kind of struggled with the title, so when it actually posts to the sites wherever you're listening to it Apple or Spotify the title of the show may be different, but I entitled it Time at the Table, and the table we're talking about is the dinner table. So we're going to jump into that. But as I'm looking down at my notes, I notice we're sitting at our I'll call it our fancy table. It's a table that we have holiday meals at because it can fit our family and others. And I'm looking down and I see an H carved into the table. So Harper has had some time at this table. So first time I've seen that carving. So good times for that.
Speaker 2:There's several Several throughout our house. It's like a treasure hunt.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'm geocaching right now, but in this episode we'll probably allude to and say a few things that I read and picked up from a book entitled the Hour that Matters Most. It was written by Lesley Parrot or Parrot, however you pronounce that. Wonderful writers both from PhDs, and the book is just fabulous. But it went along the lines of what we want to speak about tonight. So time at the table, so really talking about having meals at the table with your family.
Speaker 1:In the 1970s, Americans spent $6 billion on fast food. 1970, $6 billion on fast food. Today, Americans spend more than $110 billion on fast food. Americans now spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos and recorded music combined. Let that sink in. Spend more on fast food than all of those things. So here's a question I have for you If you could press a magic button to instantly strengthen your home, what would it do?
Speaker 1:We don't mean the physical house. What I mean is the feeling, the chemistry, the climate of the relationships within it. I'm talking about the spirit of your home. Would you want it to include more laughter? Hit the button and you're looking for it to be more meaningful. Have more engaging conversations. Maybe you hit that magic button and there's more vulnerability and respect or mutual support.
Speaker 1:These are things that most parents mention. There was a study done and they asked parents if you had a magic button and it could change the atmosphere of your home. What would it be? Those are some of the top things that they said. If you're like hundreds of parents surveyed, or even newly married people that don't even have kids yet, or you've been married for a long time and you don't have kids, regardless of who you are but you're likely to sum up the desires that you have for your home by saying you want it to be the safest place on earth Thriving families, thriving households.
Speaker 1:They don't just happen. They don't just all of a sudden. One day the atmosphere changes in your home from being disgruntled to happy, the chemistry within the family unit, the chemistry between you and your spouse. It doesn't just happen. It doesn't just overnight change, Going with the flow or taking what comes, or there's a saying that I even say sometimes. What is what it is? If you take that approach when dealing with your family, your spouse, your home, it's damaging. Every family expert will tell you that a healthy home is the result of a productive parent, a productive spouse, somebody who's actually working towards making it better.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it doesn't just happen on its own. We were talking the other day about new parents and how sometimes they just expect that they'll know how to deal with their babies, or even before you have babies you think I'm not going to do that or I'm not going to do this, or you don't need to do all that or whatever.
Speaker 1:I'll never do that. I'll never do that.
Speaker 2:But you know, some people go into parenthood so unintentionally. They haven't researched these things, they haven't taken the time to learn how to be a parent. And it's not organic. No, for most people at least, definitely not for me. It takes a lot of practice. It takes a lot of doing things wrong. It takes a lot of reading, studying, praying, seeking God's face.
Speaker 1:Look God please help me Crazy rabbit trail.
Speaker 2:All right, I got to jump in here.
Speaker 1:Sorry for interrupting Jen, but when we were having our first son, boston, we took every class possible, and I was down to take every class possible. I was raised by a single mom. I've shared that before. I had no idea what it meant to be a dad. I had no idea what it meant to be a parent, so I even took a breastfeeding class with Jen. It was one of the funniest experiences that I've ever had. It was not just me in there and Jen, but it was all the dads and all the moms in there, so it was just a hilarious class. I'm glad I took it, though. We had fun. It was fun. We did. We had fun. I did rabbit trail. I did whatever I could to try to be ready, and I still wasn't ready.
Speaker 2:Rabbit trail dads, that's what you need to do Be there to support the wife because they got a big burden. But yeah, it's just so important. Intentionality, that's our word that we base everything on. We have to be intentional when we are dealing with family matters and I think we take for granted. Sometimes we see families and we're like, oh, that's just natural to them, that's just how they are. I wish my family looked like that. There was intentionality in getting their family to that there was sacrifice, there was dedication, there was quantity time not just quality time, because we know that those things are synonymous.
Speaker 2:They go together. They do Quality and quantity. You can't have them one without the other, so it's so important. So we're going to talk about time at the table, and it helps with these following points here. The first one it's going to help with is commitment. Members of strong families are dedicated to promoting one another's welfare and happiness. They prize their family and value the relationships within that family. So important to be committed to your family, to be committed to those around you. It seems like how in the world would that even make any sense? How would eating dinner with someone be commitment? But it really does. Once you learn to sit there and take time out of your day and spend it with your family, you're showing commitment to your family and your family will respond in kind.
Speaker 1:Because at any point in the day, even if there's just two, if there's just you and your spouse, but let's say you do have children at any point in the day, especially if they're older, they could be in their room, you could be in the living room, another person could be in their bedroom, you're spread out through the whole day. And so if you don't have that time where you come together at the table, at the dinner table, that commitment to the family, it does start to dissolve. Family starts living individual lives within one household.
Speaker 2:So true. A second point is appreciation and affection. Members of strong families are thankful for each other. They don't take their special relationships with one another for granted. Number three is positive communication. Members of strong families spend a lot of time talking freely with one another, doing their best to be understood and to understand. When you're taking time, you're getting that commitment, you're getting that buy-in, you're getting that affection and appreciation. You're growing those relationships. You're going to start having deeper conversations. You're going to get to the roots of these problems.
Speaker 2:Be parents who have older teens, you know that sometimes it takes a little while to peel the onion back and get to where your kid is right what they're doing, what they're thinking, what they're feeling. It's not like they're just going to come out and blurt it out all the time. We have two extremes. We have one that will tell us everything all the time, no matter what time it is. It could be 2 am, we could be on a date, it doesn't matter. He's going to text, he's going to call, he's going to make sure that we know exactly what's going on.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Another one that is not so. I don't know the word's not really transparent, but he's just. He is not so. I don't know what the Lord is. He's not so talkative sometimes. He's not as open. Yeah, he's not as open sometimes. If we didn't have that time to sit there to talk, to talk about our day, to talk about Mike Tyson's carrier pigeon we would never get down to the root of what he's really going through, what he's really dealing with on a daily basis and positive to jump in, sorry, positive communication At the dinner table.
Speaker 1:That's not a time where we discipline and take care of stuff like that. We take care of that at a different time, a more appropriate time. The dinner table's a connecting point for all of us to have a positive connection, to talk freely, to have a great time, and our dinner table is wild Every time we sit down at it, so it's awesome.
Speaker 2:Number four is time together. Members of strong families spend generous amounts of time with one another. We talked about that. Quality time Also means quantity time, creating memories and building bonds so important. If you don't spend time with your family, like Chris mentioned earlier, you all start living different lives. If you don't spend time with your spouse, you all start living different lives. It's very important. The other thing I'm going to drop in here really quick, so I don't forget it put the cell phones away at the dinner table.
Speaker 1:Yes no phones at the table.
Speaker 2:Our time together is time together with our family. We don't have cell phones anywhere near our table. They're actually locked upstairs during dinner table. During dinner time, we have TVs off, iPads off, every device is off. It's just the time that we have with our family. It's separated time and our kids know that they have our full attention. We know that we have theirs and it just makes a much better environment for them to be able to share with us, to get to know each other.
Speaker 2:Just because you're in a family doesn't mean you always know each other, right? We all have family members, probably extended family members. We don't know them at all. We know the person getting our coffee at Starbucks more than we know some of our family members. So it's important to set that time apart and to make sure that you're growing those bonds, not just between you, your spouse, your children, but your children with each other. Because, especially when your children are different ages they're in different classes at school, they're in different things at church, they're constantly, especially as they get older they're not together as much anymore and if you want those relationships to be strong and last a lifetime, it's important to make that time together matter.
Speaker 1:Great point, great point with that.
Speaker 2:Number five is spiritual well-being. Strong families, whether they attend formal religious services or not, have a sense of greater good that gives them strength and purpose as a unit. I think that goes without being said. If you're taking the time to set the side and you're being intentional, you're going to have a good base right, a good foundation, and that's so important. Number six the last one I'm going to go over is the ability to cope with stress and crisis.
Speaker 2:Members of strong families are not fragmented by tension and trouble. They use those experiences to learn and grow together. If you know that your family got your back, if you know your spouse has your back, you're not going to be so stressed out. Crisis isn't going to overwhelm you because you're like you know what. We got this as a team. I may not know what to do, but I know my husband may give me some good ideas. Sometimes my kids even give me good ideas. I'm not too proud to ask my kids hey, here's the situation, what do you guys think of that? They see things from a different aspect sometime and I think that's important.
Speaker 2:Now, I don't always take it, but it's a good thing to do, it's a good thing to let them think about things and to figure out and to problem solve, before they have to do it in a matter which is going to affect their life forever. It's important to train them to be able to deal with these things.
Speaker 1:I think with that too, the ability to cope with stress and crisis. Now it's easy to say to your child well, you don't even know, you're not really experiencing life yet, you don't pay the bills. Maybe you don't say sometimes you think that, but hey, they face things that we've never faced when we were kids. I just turned 42 years old yesterday and my 16-year-old, my 13-year-old, my 6-year-olds and Ashry was 16 months eventually Hill facing I never faced as a child, a young person.
Speaker 1:There is some stresses and crisis that they go through. But if you have that time at the table, they know at school they had a rough time, or in their friend group they had a rough time, or a youth group, whatever it may be, but they know that that place, that same time 5.30, 6.00, whatever when you have that time at the table, when you have that dinner, they know they're going to be around the table with the family. They know that everybody loves them, they know that mom and dad are there to help them, to listen to them, they're going to have a great time, they're going to laugh and all that stress, that crisis, can subside and actually either be left aside or lighten that load. Then, if you have that time at the table, they're going to be more open to share with you what that crisis or stress that they have in that situation.
Speaker 2:So true, these all kind of link together. You can't have one without the other. Right and none of these points. They're all kind of leaning on each other like a big Jenga puzzle. Did you know that 61% of kids say their parents are more relaxed and fun to be around when they have dinner together? That's kind of crazy, huh.
Speaker 1:That's a huge step.
Speaker 2:It's amazing that I mean kids would be that like intuitive. You know they actually notice that, so it's a big deal.
Speaker 1:They do. They notice everything. So why? Why does it matter? Why does time at the table matter? We'll consider this. Study after study shows that more often, the more often families eat together, the less likely the kids are to smoke, drink, do drugs, get depressed, develop eating disorders, become overweight and consider suicide. The more likely they are to eat their vegetables what a random thing for them to do a study on. But hey, they'll know. They're more likely to know which words to use. They learn big words. They do well at school. They feel that their parents love them and this too they practice abstinence. They'll delay having sex. All of this, this is just starters.
Speaker 1:This is what study after study has shown the value of time at the table, the value of having dinner as a family, with the family Number one. Eating together means eating better, right? I started this off with some stats about fast food when we're eating at the table. Now I'm not saying that every single time we sit down at the table it's a home cooked meal. Sometimes I will order pizza and that kind of stuff, but normally you're going to be eating better Time at the table. Eating together gets better with practice.
Speaker 1:You might be thinking we tried it and it was a hot mess. Everybody you know. Dad got a call, I had to do this, this or the other, and it was just a hot mess. It takes time, right, it's like anything else, but you have to decide. This is what we're going to do and put in the effort, put in the time to make it work. Eating together is something your kids want. I'm going to say that again. Eating together is something your kids want Again. Study after study has shown this to be true. The reality is that teens who have frequent family dinners are almost three times as likely to say they have an excellent relationship with their mothers and three times as likely to say they have an excellent relationship with their fathers. Teens are also more than twice as likely to report that their parents are very good at listening to them. More frequent times at the table having dinner, and 60% of teens who have dinner with their parents fewer than five nights a week. 60% of them said that they wish they could eat dinner with their parents or their family more often. They want to eat with you, they want to be there, they want to share that time.
Speaker 1:Eating together is about more than the food. It's not so much about you being a wonderful cook. Jen is an amazing cook. I am not. I can grill. I can grill some stuff. I got a black stone. Then I get out there and I got my things that I can make some Smash Burgers. I can make a mean tri-tip on it too. It's not so much about the food. Don't think, okay, now I have to make a five course meal. It's got to be Michelin star quality.
Speaker 1:It's not about that. It's about the time together. It's about the time sharing that time. It's about talking, engaging, connecting, being a unit, being a family. This goes out to our newlyweds or our married couples that don't have children yet, or we're going to talk about this in future episodes. But if you have infertility problems and you can't have children, we're talking to you too. Even it's just the two of you, you need to make that time to have dinner at the table. You need to make that time to connect because it is so vital, it is so important and is so empowering to your family unit.
Speaker 2:Our lives are so busy. We have constant information flow. We have constant things pulling at us If we don't set this time aside. It's just easy to not ever set time aside. By the time you're ready to talk to your spouse, you're so tired, you're just like let's get a med. Go to sleep. I'm done with this day. What can you do? Get started now.
Speaker 1:Yes, it's not too late.
Speaker 2:It's not too late. If you have kids, it's not too late. Put a plan in place. Set a plan, get the family together, get your spouse together, whoever's in your family unit, get them together and say you know what this is really important to me. I want to be able to sit down, I want to be able to have dinner together. What can we do to make that happen? What is that going to look like for our family? Do we put the phones away? Do we put the TV away? What does that look like? It might look different for everyone, but make sure there's the ability for communication. Make sure there's the ability for no interruptions.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:It's very important because if you're getting interrupted every couple of minutes, it's not going to be very meaningful. It's not really putting time aside. We haven't really done anything. We're just sitting there talking to other people. Get a plan.
Speaker 1:Absolutely. Let's say, you and your spouse work different schedules. Well, I think I'm sure there's a day off in there somewhere there is yeah, or it doesn't have to be dinner, it can be breakfast. It can be breakfast, yeah, whatever you need to the time at the table, that's a great point. We've talked about dinner, but if your schedule affords you the time to do it for breakfast, then do it for breakfast. Again, it's not about the meal, it's not about the food, it's about the time together.
Speaker 2:Number two include your children or your spouse in dinner making. Make it a group activity. I have to do one at a time, because if all the triplets got in the kitchen at the same time, it would probably implode.
Speaker 1:I'm not sure. It would definitely burn down.
Speaker 2:If I get too desperate to remodel, I might have them try it and see what happens. But definitely get your kids involved, even if it's just picking out the dinner, if they're too little or if they're too old and they don't want to help. Maybe it's just picking out certain dinners during the week and you could put those on the calendar, do a little meal planning To break the ice and get conversation flowing. If this is new to you guys, you could always play a game. We play a couple different things, but one that's our favorite around here is guessing songs. We have Alexa in our house and we ask Alexa to play Disney hits and people yell out what?
Speaker 1:Sorry, I activated my Alexa now she's talking to me.
Speaker 2:Maybe I should have heard you do the show. She might do a better job, but uh she's playing Disney hits right now.
Speaker 2:Frozen. I know this one Frozen. So we uh play Disney hits and whoever is the first one to yell out the movie that it's from gets a point. Sometimes we do Boys Against Girls because we're pretty evenly matched. Sometimes it's every man for himself and it just depends on, uh, you know the night of what we want to do. But we do some other things too, but that's one of the ones that's pretty easy to do and there's always fun little things you can do. There's all kinds of really cool ideas. If you just Google it, honestly, there's so many cool family like ideas for games and stuff and things you can do with your family. It's not hokey and it's fun and everyone gets involved and they enjoy it.
Speaker 1:And why do we say icebreaker right? You think of okay, you're in a meeting where you're first meeting people and they do an icebreaker right. So losing up the room For your kids. I promise you you have a good time, you start having fun, you start being silly. Uh, you throw in competition. Once we're done with that, we start settling in and start eating. Everybody has been yelling out, everybody's been laughing, everybody's ready to talk, everybody's ready to connect. Try it, it will work.
Speaker 2:Your mind focuses on where you're at right, because you put the day aside by getting all that out of your system and playing the game or doing whatever it is that you do to kind of like get them all on board and you're ready to have that meaningful time now, so so important. If you miss some days, don't give up. There's busier times in our lives than others. We try to do it at least five times a week but honestly, there's some days, some weeks we do three.
Speaker 2:You know, some weeks we might miss most of them. A week, it's a week in one. But jump back on it. Don't let that be like oh well, last week we only did one, so I guess we're just going to stop doing this. Keep with it. Keep your rules in place, whatever they may be. No cell phones, no devices, whatever that is. Keep those things. Keep your routine, Even if it gets set aside for a little while. Jump back on it that next week.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's so important. So again, if you miss it, jump back into it. We're about to go into even busier season. The girls are going to start playing soccer. Grayson is going to be playing football Boston. Thankfully he's about to be driving so we won't have as much parent taxing as we do now. But he's part of our worship team at church so I take him to practice and also it gets busy right and it's about to get even busier with those times. So we understand there's certain seasons sometimes that you're not going to get those five mills together. But we're going to. We try our hardest and at all possible. Sometimes we'll eat later.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sometimes we eat after practice. It's like 738 o'clock, but we still make it a priority to do it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you'll be surprised if you're not already doing this. And don't feel bad if you're not. Don't feel like, oh, I'm a terrible parent, I'm a terrible person, we don't do this. We've never put real any stock into it. Just start now. Just let you know there's something new that we're going to do and you will see the benefits. It's so funny. Asher again is 16 months.
Speaker 1:He loves, loves he loves being around the table with us all. He gets so excited. Every night we put him in his high chair. He knows dinner's being made, he can feel the excitement building. He's already talking and when we all get around the table he is nonstop jabbering, getting in on it. He yells out you know, baby talk stuff when we're playing the games. I mean, he's 16 months, yeah, but that time around the table, that time together, affects him as well in such a positive way, and so I just admonish you Do it please, if you're not already doing it.
Speaker 1:If you are, congratulations, great job, keep doing it. You're doing a wonderful job. Get it. If you haven't started, you haven't done it yet, that's okay. Start today, start tomorrow. Start, just do it.
Speaker 1:And you're going to see the most wonderful benefits from it. So a biblical perspective Proverbs 20, 9 and 18, and this is the CEB version when there's no vision that people get out of control, but whoever obeys instructions is happy. That might sound like a weird scripture to use right For what we're talking about being around the table, time at the table, but time at the table as a parent with children and even if you, again, you don't have children, it's just you and your spouse Time at the table. It's a time for you to cast that vision. It's that time for you to get everybody on the same page. It's that time for the kids to know, hey, this is who we are, this is what we are, this is what we do. And so that's why I thought this scripture Proverbs 29 and 18 was so appropriate for this episode is because you're spending that quality time together and you're casting vision for your family. So, again, do it, start jumping to it right away.
Speaker 1:Thank you again so much for being with us Again. Like rate share comment, it really helps with the visibility of the show and it lets us know, hey, people are actually listening. So thank you for that. And, like always, we always like to close in prayer. So, dear Lord, we thank you for this opportunity, lord, to build a share of hearts tonight. I pray whenever our listeners are listening, whether it be the day that we post it or six months from now. I pray, lord. That's something that we've said, touched them, helped them, helped create a better atmosphere in their home and time around the table. We thank you so very much in Jesus' name, amen.
Speaker 2:Amen.
Speaker 1:As always, remember love works, so let's get to work.