9 Tips For Starting A Restful Weekly Multigenerational Family Meal

This episode is a recording of one of our HouseCraft Date Night events in Cincinnati!

Get an inside look at how we disciple local families to help them start weekly multi-generational meals.

You'll learn our top 9 tips that will help you actually pull of a weekly, multigenerational family meal SUSTAINABLY without pulling your hair out and quitting after two weeks.

Make sure to listen to last week's episode, Part 1 of this series, on your podcast app!

On this episode, we talk about:

0:47 Introduction to Tim and Dana Schmoyer (7 kids in 8 years, 10+ years of family meals!)

3:12 3 important things to remember

6:18 Top tips for sustainable, awesome family meals

6:38 Tip 1: Prepare for rest

9:33 Tip 2: Prep snacks for hangry kids

10:23 Tip 3: Budget for tough weeks

11:37 Tip 4: Usher in the meal together

14:15 Tip 5: Create a pre-meal routine

19:45 Tip 6: Experiment with the details

21:07 Tip 7: Give roles to all generations

23:35 Tip 8: Let the house get messy

24:59 Tip 9: Keep it simple

30:38 Question: How to do this without making the entire weekend feel like it's being taken over with Saturday rest and Sunday church and other activities?

35:06 Question: More ideas on how to involve the older generations

39:47: Question: Can you expand on declaring over the children?

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