weekly family time outside of making an honoring the…
Page 137 weekly family time outside of making an honoring the basic marriage covenant I have come to fill that probably no single structure will help you prioritize your family more than a specific time. Set aside every week just for family ,
— from Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting)
In the book
The one shift that opens every door is to stop treating work as the nonnegotiable around which family must fit, and start treating family as the nonnegotiable around which everything else must fit. And protect it with structure, because good intentions evaporate without it: nothing will prioritize your family more than a specific time set aside every single week, immovable, just for them. Eat together, and give that table your whole attention. […] Teach by living it. Model the values you want rather than imposing them; mind whom you expose them to; raise givers, not takers, and practice it together. Guard the time. Set aside immovable weekly family time, eat together with full attention, and keep a ritual that carries the love. Make family nonnegotiable — and when friction comes, be the first to say I was wrong, and choose empathy over blame. — Family & Parenting (Family/Parenting)