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You Can Make Family Meals Happen
by Daisy Dowling
Quick Takes
- Recast your expectations of what a “family meal” is to take pressure off yourself
- Use tricks and planning to shave off shopping and prep time
- Involve your kids
- Try family breakfast if dinner doesn’t work for your family
- Keep meals fun, friendly, and brief
As a working parent, it’s one of the questions you dread most. And it comes every day, right around 3 p.m.: “So, umm . . . what are we doing about dinner?”
Whether the question comes in a text from your partner, teens at home, or it pops into your head during the marketing meeting, you reflexively cringe, because dinnertime is one of the danger zones of working parenthood, when the strains of your dual role feel the most acute. ...
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