Dear Reader,
When was the last time you had an actual conversation with
your family around the dinner table, without the distraction of the television
or any other form of technology?
In today’s technology-driven world finding time to stop and
enjoy real, in-person conversations with our loved ones is becoming less of a
priority and more of an inconvenient task. Like any family, our individual
schedules keep us constantly on the go, passing each other as we run in and out
of the front door. I travel a couple of nights out of every week, my wife and 4
kids have busy lives and their own individual obligations—it is easy to find
ourselves disconnected
Dinner Conversations is a book that contains my personal
collection of conversations that happened roughly over a five-year period,
mainly between my kids, wife, and I around our dinner table. I know what you’re
thinking and before you start glancing towards the top corner for the “x”—let’s
get personal for a minute, shall we…
My name is Jason, I have four children, a wonderful wife of
24 years, a successful career and have absolutely NO filter. Every family has
that one person who says exactly what pops into their head, always without
hesitation and in my family that ONE person is yours truly. I use my own
personal “trial and error” approach to parenting, cross my fingers and hope for
the best.
I’m turning 50 this year and like most guys my age--I figure
things out the old fashion way. I don’t read manuals. Typically, I find myself
trying unusual ways of putting things together, taking different paths and
swearing more frequently no that I have teenagers, which I find clears the head
and helps a great deal with the thought process.
Two of the most important pieces of my unique parenting
style are:
1)
If I am home, we are all sitting down to
a family dinner (except on date nights that is just for my wife and I).
2)
Dinner should be fun, we should all laugh
and not be afraid to speak our minds.
In Short, the collection of conversations and hysterical
moments a family has and laughs about privately, I have put together for you to
laugh, enjoy and possibly even find some of the unique conversations relatable.
I invite you to take a break from the serious page turners and chapters that
seem to go on for weeks, because you are in the constant process of finding
where you left off. Take a break from raising your own kids and just have a
good laugh at how I raised mine. The only thing bigger than my college tuition
bills will likely be the therapy bills that I will be paying for down the road,
so feel free to go ahead and pick up a few copies of the book to share the
laughs with your own friends and family : ) profits from this book will be
applied to one of the following:
-Family Therapy Jar
-College tuition bills (Did I mention I had FOUR kids?)
-The 18+ years of alcohol consumption my wife and I will
surely need to get them all graduated and still maintain some degree of sanity.
If you’re still here and have made it this far, I hope that
you enjoy reading Dinner Conversations and the raw glimpse of our family’s most
hysterical conversations and moments over the years.
Grab a seat, a drink and as always enjoy the conversations.
Love,
Author Jason Reid
P.S. Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook
@DinnerConversations for new conversations, family updates and to also share
your own dinner conversations with us!
About the Author
Jason
Reid is an entrepreneur by trade and a dad by passion. He currently lives in Murrieta, California with his wonderful wife and
amazing four children. Over the years he has written numerous business books, a
novel, and children’s The Protector Bug book series.
His
latest book is the humor/family/parenting book, Dinner
Conversations.
No comments:
Post a Comment