Family meal time is usually anything but dull at our house. With a table full of children ranging from 2 to 17 there is always someone talking about something…usually more than one at a time, I’m afraid.

I do like the idea of focusing our dinner table discussions, though, and so have been doing some thinking along these lines. Here is a short list of some ideas I’ve come up with so far. Care to add any? I’d love to hear!

• Tell about one thing you started today and one thing you finished
• If you could do anything you wanted, what would it be?
• What would you most like to change about yourself?
• Start a story with a few sentences and go around the table.
• Discuss upcoming events or changes that will affect our lives.
• Where is one place you’d like to go?
• What is one thing you’d like to try doing?
• Share a favorite memory.
• What is the best thing that happened to you today?  The worst thing?
• What is the funniest thing that happened today?
• What was the most interesting thing that happened today?