Proper Table Setting: a good life skill…
This year, as we are trying to assign roles and keep our children busy doing functional tasks during the holidays, I think learning how to set the table properly is a great life skill.
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I know, I’m in my…. Oh let’s not talk age….but, I’m older. In fact, as of yesterday, I am exactly one year older, and I still have not mastered this life skill. As we celebrated my birthday at a nice restaurant last night, I had to ask my husband if the glass to my right was my water glass. You might laugh, but several other adults (I won’t mention names) didn’t know either. I had an “Ah ha” moment; I thought I could really use and appreciate a visual aide/guide to help me to remember the essential placement at a formal dinner table setting. Then I thought, “why not create one and share”? I realize that there are plenty of them on the Internet, but I thought it would be great for my daughter to be able to use this visual guide and have her help set the table. A perfect way to include my daughter in the holiday “busy-ness” is to assign her the job as the “official-table-setter-helper”. This gives her an important functional task during the holidays and then carries over to the less formal setting for nightly meals.
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Don’t forget to include your family member this holiday season by assigning roles or having them help as much as possible. Here are a few suggestions from Rebecca McKee, MSED, ACBA; let family member help to create a food shopping list pertaining to Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas cookie recipes; have them push the cart and find the items in the supermarket; load the dishwasher after the meal. In other words, try to use their excitable, nervous energies as much as possible in a positive, proactive way.
Wishing You a Wonderful, Happy Thanksgiving
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Formal Dinner Place Setting printable >> [1]
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