Family meals – our most underrated weapon?

As our eldest hits double figures, we’re tentatively considering secondary schools, which is why you’ll now find me on the school run quizzing all the parents I know with older kids about their school experiences. One such conversation led to me chatting with a Christian mum about the way faith issues are presented.

It was around the time of Charlie Kirk’s murder and this mum told me her daughter had come home saying they’d discussed his death in the classroom. That a teacher had presented Kirk as somebody who stood for something “not very nice”, but apparently hadn’t gone into details. Having not heard of him before, this teenage girl asked her parents about him. They explained that actually the man was a Christian, and much of what he stood for was Biblical.

How do we equip our kids for these conversations?

This led me to ask how this family had responded to finding this out about what their daughter was being told at school. The answer had been simple: they’d chatted about it around the dinner table. Which got me thinking about how crucial meal times with our kids are.