Thanksgiving Prep
For the Whole Family
members of all ages can work together to bring some seasonal flare to the dining room. Maybe this means picking up some Thanksgiving coloring books, or perhaps the family can venture outdoors to collect autumn trimmings for crafts. It’s a great way to let each family member put their own personal spin on the holiday! Have a ‘Roller Derby’ Finally. While an adult should be the one to put these delicious baked goods in the oven, the whole family can help shape the dough. In fact, Care.com recommends making this a contest. Set aside a time when everyone can vie for the title of Fastest Roll Maker, and you’ll have plenty of warm, flaky, delicious treats come dinnertime. Letting everyone play a part may take a little more planning and add slightly more chaos to your Thanksgiving preparations. But it’s sure to produce a lot of great memories and bonding moments among your loved ones. And by the time you sit down to eat, you’ll all have something to be thankful for right in front of you — Those. Delicious. Rolls.
Thanksgiving is more than just a feast; it’s about coming together as a family and being thankful for one
another. So why wait to get into the spirit until everyone is seated at the table? Here are a few ways you can make the actual preparation of Thanksgiving dinner fun and engaging for the whole family!
Give Everyone a Role No, not those rolls — yet. Making the feast a family project can turn the day from a hectic list of chores into a magical bonding experience. It’s important to match each family member to a job that best fits their abilities. Young children can mash potatoes or rinse ingredients in the sink. Older kids can take on more responsibility, like measuring ingredients, keeping an eye on timers, and setting the table. Teens and young adults can supervise their younger siblings and cousins in these important tasks and may be called upon to stir what’s on the stove while an adult checks on the football game. Roll Out the Decorations Still not talking about bread. Not everything in Thanksgiving preparation needs to be tied to the kitchen. Creative family
Facts Don’t Lie
to be buried in innuendo, supposition, and opinion. And they fervently project to the public that the totality of what they are saying is fact. We can no longer assume the media is giving us “just facts” without our own rational analysis of what they are saying. Critically thinking about information we receive is necessary to filter out any agendas reporters may have, so that we can reach our own conclusions. Facts don’t lie, but unfortunately people do. People often want to persuade us to believe and think like them. It is incumbent for each of us to distinguish fact from innuendo so that when we vote, we preserve the principals of fair and equal justice for all.
A fact is a real occurrence or event or a thing known to have occurred or be true. It is distinguishable from suspicion, supposition, or innuendo. Suspicions and suppositions are attributed to our own personal beliefs, while innuendos create assumptions. When our friends tell us some event occurred, we believe the statement to be factual. It’s usually because we believe our friends would not lie to us. But is your belief enough proof that the event actually occurred? Of course not. In a court of law, it takes more than a statement to prove an event occurred; it takes even more to prove a fact. So, what more does it take to prove a fact? Evidence. Evidence comes in the form of other witnesses, documents, objects (physical evidence), and rational deductions from surrounding circumstances (circumstantial evidence). Each of these pieces of evidence must be credible. Gaps, holes, or contradictions in the evidence should all be considered before making a decision about whether an event occurred or is real. When watching or listening to the news on TV, radio, the web, or social media, it is impossible for us to know fact from fiction. We, as listeners, are at the mercy of the journalists, and we tend to trust them to be truthful. But if we analyze their reporting carefully among different news outlets, we find their reporting
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