The Obama family, it was reported today, plays a game called Roses and Thorns which reminded me of my son's tradition started out of the blue last December. From an earlier post:
Five questions
At family dinner the other night
my son started a family tradition by asking a series of questions of
his sister, mother and me: what good thing, bad thing and silly thing,
happened in your day. He reminded me of the grandmother he never knew, who made it her job to run the dining room table at home or at dinner parties. It was a great exercise.
With a nod to my son and to Merlin Mann's 5ives, here are my five questions for the dinner table:
Who did you help today?
What silly thing did you do today?
Who did you make smile today?
What did you learn today?
What did you create today?
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