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Spend time getting tangled up in each other’s businessBy Ron CiancuttiI don’t know many families that still collectively sit down to dinner anymore. In fact, I’ve seen a lot of modern homes with a “breakfast bar” but not many with actual kitchen tables. The bar typically has a television at one end that helps discourage any possible interaction or conversation. In my house, the dinner table was where my family met to discuss the highs and lows of our day. I learned to tell a joke and speak before a group of people at that sacred place. Usually, I received some much-needed parental advice, too. Sometimes that advice came simply from what my parents observed was going on in my life. I didn’t have to ask. They were connected to me, not constantly distracted from me. They were raising a family.