Joan Nathan opens up about food, fun and conversation at her own dinner table, and the sacredness of the family meal.
One Mom’s Dinner Tale: Doing it FDP Style
Read how Justine turned to FDP for guidance to make dinner more fun and meaningful.
The Family Dinner Project and Mayo Clinic: Innovating for your family’s health
We were thrilled to speak at one of the leading healthcare conferences of 2013: Mayo Clinic’s Transform 2013. The Family Dinner Project has been working with Mayo Clinic’s Center for Innovation since summer 2012 with a special focus on family dinner and the home as an innovative hub of healthcare in a community. Learn more about […]
Exploring Empathy at the Dinner Table
Seeing that it’s Bullying Prevention Month, we’ve dedicated our October newsletter to cultivating bullying’s archenemy: empathy. At the heart of this hardwired and important quality is the ability to relate deeply to another person’s experience. So, for example, when your child sees you a bit stressed out at dinnertime, he or she empathizes with you […]
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At what age do you think you first understood the true meaning of empathy? Why—what happened?
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Do you have a role model for empathy? This can be someone you know personally, or not. How is he or she a role model?
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Actor Javier Bardem said, “I think we are living in selfish times…we live in the so-called ‘first world,’ and we may be first in a lot of things like technology, but we are behind in empathy.” Do you agree or disagree with this statement? Explain.
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Is there someone you know who is having a hard time right now? What is that they are going through? What might you do to let them know you understand or want to understand how they are feeling?
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“’Don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.” What does that phrase mean to you?
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Have you ever been teased by a friend? How did it make you feel? How do you think a friend feels when he or she gets teased?