The way we behave at the table often mirrors how we show up in life—patient, distracted, kind, or quietly self-centered.
Jordan Cooper notes that if you ever sat through a family dinner in the late ‘70s or ‘80s, chances are it came with a set of unspoken rules — rules that, without realizing it, shaped how you navigated the world.
The way we behave at the table often mirrors how we show up in life—patient, distracted, kind, or quietly self-centered.
These rules were quiet lessons in patience, empathy, and respect — values that wove themselves into how you showed up in conversations, relationships, and even work meetings later on.
Author's summary: Boomers' dinner table rules shaped their manners.