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The Last American Supper
Taking Take Back Your Time Day to the Streets this October 24th!
This year's Take Back Your Time Day theme, "Let's Get Back to the Table," promises to be one of our best opportunities to dramatize the repercussions of work without end and overscheduling. With the number of families that have time for a meal together down one-third from three decades ago, friends too busy to gather, and studies showing an ever more isolated population, we are encouraging supporters to take it to the streets this October 24th to get the point across once and for all that we're out of time. TAKE IT TO THE STREETS! Let your inner thespian shine and consider organizing a sidewalk dinner on a street in your town to call attention to a tradition at risk, the family dinner. Call it "The Last American Supper." Set up a table at a high-traffic area (a cardtable with a table cloth works), sit family or friends down for a meal, lay out a few homey touches. Bring your kids, favorite recipes and encourage discussion. Talk about how time poverty is making our home lives poorer. Or you could also have a normal dinner conversation -- how was school today? Or if your dinner is with friends -- talk about work/life balance and how you reclaim time in your lives. PUBLICIZE IT Invite local leaders and media to join you. Explain to them that the American dinner is headed for dodo-land as workweeks continue to spiral out of control. The table frames our main talking point, that taking back your time is a critical family values issue. The ability for parents to connect and strengthen bonds with children is under assault as the lines between work and home are blurred. Studies show that the time parents spend eating with their children is more important to their kids' academic success and psychological well-being than doing homework or extra-curricular activities. TELL US WHAT YOU'RE PLANNING Sound like fun? Let us know if you're planning to stage an event this by sending an email to lisa@timeday.org. Be sure to take pictures and send them in to us! And remember to have a good time, make it natural, and pass the salt. |
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