Your Dinner Table is Your Mission Field
Focus on the Family Equipping Parents Podcast
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 30 September 2025
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Having dinner regularly with your kids can lead to some beautiful conversations. John and Danny open up about times they had meals with their children, and why that was so meaningful. Then, Jim Daly asks Justin Earley about some of the dinnertime traditions he's started with his four sons.
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| 0:32.3 | Back in the day when I was a kid growing up in the 60s and 70s, I think some of the funnest times we had as a |
| 0:40.1 | family were gathered around the dinner table. My dad would kind of talk about his day. There were |
| 0:46.0 | always jokes and inevitably there were some laughter along the way. And it was just a wonderful |
| 0:52.5 | tradition I tried to have with my own kids and truly some of my |
| 0:56.8 | favorite times as a dad have been around the meal table either breakfast or dinner we just really |
| 1:03.9 | enjoyed being able to connect and download and the kids this is where I had to let go Danny you |
| 1:09.6 | know I'm a little bit on the control side I had to let go and just let the kids, this is where I had to let go. Danny, you know I'm a little bit on the control side. |
| 1:11.6 | I had to let go and just let the kids run wild. Sometimes they just kind of reigned supreme at the |
| 1:18.2 | table and I had to smile and say, it's my house and they're having a good time. It's a good thing. |
| 1:24.4 | I'm John Fuller, along with Dr. Danny Werta, who heads up our parenting team. |
| 1:28.3 | How have dinner time has been meaningful for you in your family? Those are great words, John. |
| 1:33.2 | Just the tradition, the sacred space of dinner time. And I love how you reframed the kids getting |
| 1:40.6 | a bit chaotic during dinner time. I think a lot of parents can relate to that, especially with young children. |
| 1:47.3 | And then even with teenagers, with young adults. |
| 1:50.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:50.5 | There can be so much going on. |
| 1:54.0 | As a family in our home, we prioritize dinner time and carved out enough time. Sometimes we were in a hurry with dinner, |
| 2:05.4 | but we would wait for each other, eat together. Sometimes we'd put board games out for the week |
| 2:11.0 | where we would be playing a board game and just finishing it out throughout the week. We'd have a |
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