How to add the tradition of dining together as a family.


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I remember from my childhood when I achieved my teens, I started to be more absent from the daily dinner in the family. I started to hang out more with friends and my parents just kept the original schedule of their meal, and if me and my brother were there, we would have all together a meal, but if not, we would eat the food later. But there was the special Friday night dinner that they used to force us to stay as a family. What did I bring to my newly formed family?


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Many times I asked them permission to hang out with friends since Friday night in Brazil is a thing for young people. Like many parts of the world we work or study the whole week and Friday Night is the first night that we can sleep late without any appointments the next day. But most of the times I tried to eat with them and maybe leave to a party after the meal together. At that time I was doing more for them, but not for me, since I didn't see any reason for that.So we used to have some fights sometimes about that since they were a bit inflexible about that.

  I didn't have the best relationship with my parents, so that's why the talks during the dinner were very superficial and not very productive for me. The meaning of being there every Friday with them was nothing more than feeling obligated to do that. Why stay there? Because it was important to them, for their reason which wasn't for sure shared with me and my brother. But now with my new family, I am trying to make it different. My kids are still young they still enjoy having us around, but we are trying to cultivate this once-a-week special Friday at home. We have fun and share experiences together.

I expect that it is going to be challenging to keep this during their teen years, but still I want to make them very aware that we are here for them and this special one-a-week occasion is an opportunity to share as a family this experience. Maybe they can skip some of these dinner experiences because of a party or an event that they think it is important. But my goal is to make something where parents and children can have a fluid share of experience in both ways.


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My objective in this case is maybe to create some type of different experience in the same situation: Friday's dinner. So instead of being a forced activity when they grow up, something more natural where they will enjoy being with us. We already have too many obligations during our week, and a family obligation also isn't very healthy in our family life. My hope is that healthily they can have some joy instead of self-sacrifice thinking during this dinner experience, that was my whole feeling when I was on their side of the table.


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Lembro-me da minha infância, quando cheguei à adolescência, comecei a ficar mais ausente do jantar diário em família. Comecei a sair mais com os amigos e meus pais apenas mantiveram o cronograma original de suas refeições, e se eu e meu irmão estivéssemos lá, faríamos uma refeição todos juntos, mas se não, comeríamos a comida mais tarde. Mas havia o jantar especial de sexta-feira à noite que eles usavam para nos forçar a ficar como uma família. O que eu trouxe para minha família recém-formada?


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Muitas vezes eu pedia permissão para eles saírem com os amigos, já que sexta-feira à noite no Brasil é coisa de gente jovem. Como em muitas partes do mundo, trabalhamos ou estudamos a semana inteira e sexta-feira à noite é a primeira noite que podemos dormir até tarde sem compromissos no dia seguinte. Mas na maioria das vezes eu tentava comer com eles e talvez ir a uma festa depois da refeição juntos. Naquela época eu estava fazendo mais por eles, mas não por mim, já que eu não via razão para isso. Então nós costumávamos brigar às vezes sobre isso, já que eles eram um pouco inflexíveis sobre isso.

  Eu não tinha o melhor relacionamento com meus pais, então é por isso que as conversas durante o jantar eram muito superficiais e não muito produtivas para mim. O significado de estar lá toda sexta-feira com eles não era nada mais do que me sentir obrigado a fazer isso. Por que ficar lá? Porque era importante para eles, pelo motivo deles que não era certamente compartilhado comigo e meu irmão. Mas agora, com minha nova família, estou tentando fazer diferente. Meus filhos ainda são pequenos e gostam de nos ter por perto, mas estamos tentando cultivar essa sexta-feira especial semanal em casa. Nós nos divertimos e compartilhamos experiências juntos.

Espero que seja desafiador manter isso durante a adolescência, mas ainda quero deixá-los bem cientes de que estamos aqui por eles e que essa ocasião especial semanal é uma oportunidade de compartilhar essa experiência como família. Talvez eles possam pular algumas dessas experiências de jantar por causa de uma festa ou evento que eles acham importante. Mas meu objetivo é fazer algo onde pais e filhos possam ter um compartilhamento fluido de experiências de ambas as maneiras.


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Meu objetivo neste caso é talvez criar algum tipo de experiência diferente na mesma situação: o jantar de sexta-feira. Então, em vez de ser uma atividade forçada quando eles crescerem, algo mais natural onde eles gostem de estar conosco. Já temos muitas obrigações durante a semana, e uma obrigação familiar também não é muito saudável em nossa vida familiar. Minha esperança é que eles possam ter alguma alegria saudável em vez de pensar em auto-sacrifício durante essa experiência de jantar, esse foi todo o meu sentimento quando estava do lado deles da mesa.


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Em algum momento nós iremos estar do outro lado da mesa né?

Realmente fazer desses momentos se tornarem "obrigações" não seria legal. Os filhos ao invés de crescer e guardar na memória momentos únicos vão se lembrar de momentos chatos ou tentar esquecer disso.

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Sim hehehe é o fluxo! As questões de de obrigar uma boa relaçao entre pai e filho nao existe… tem que cultivar!
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Feels like Brazil is a place to enjoy one's youthful age, it's good that you have cultivated the tradition for your kids.

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At my place it was "that's dinner time and you come home this time to eat, there's no eat later, not coming, you come at this time end of story".

It will be nice to see how you handle it when they will be teens with smartphone h24 in their hands looking dumb tiktokers like teens do now 😂

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oh man this is a tricky stage!!! Let's see how I handle that!

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traditional... old fashioned... it won't be far from coercion lol

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but that's how tradition is made... by coercions and oppressions. although in general it's just me who makes this sound like a bad one.

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it depends of how it is imposed!! and also being flexible sometimes...

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My family does this once-a-week thing, but for us it's on Sundays. In the evening, we spend it together, no matter what. Sundays work best for us because it's the last day of rest before the new work week and everyone has already used up the rest of the weekend to do whatever they wanted to do.
So, I know the value of having such days dedicated to family.

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It is important for sure if you plan to keep the bonds tight...there are lots of families with not so tight bonds, even nowadays my parents and me, they tried to keep some bonds by forcing, but that's not how it should be hehe

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