The payoff is gone
AMSHI -HOW IS THIS
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We have always started Shabbos on time. That is, when the sun sets. In the summer, that occasionally means starting after 9 PM, and not sitting down to eat until 10.
There are several advantages to this. For one, there is much less of a last minute rush when you have an extra hour to get ready for shabbos. For another, it usually means watching a game for an extra hour. Finally, it means having a quiet meal with just the two of us.
But after the Pistons playoff run, when we let oldest stay up to watch the game, it seemed wrong to send him to bed the next night before Shabbos. Where were are priorities? So we let him stay up for dinner on Friday night. And since he was staying up, my middlest needed to stay up too.
So now our quiet dinner for two has turned into a boisterous meal of four followed by bed time. Usually at 11.
So maybe its time to rethink this whole on-time Shabbos thing.
The proceeding post is nonfiction.
We have always started Shabbos on time. That is, when the sun sets. In the summer, that occasionally means starting after 9 PM, and not sitting down to eat until 10.
There are several advantages to this. For one, there is much less of a last minute rush when you have an extra hour to get ready for shabbos. For another, it usually means watching a game for an extra hour. Finally, it means having a quiet meal with just the two of us.
But after the Pistons playoff run, when we let oldest stay up to watch the game, it seemed wrong to send him to bed the next night before Shabbos. Where were are priorities? So we let him stay up for dinner on Friday night. And since he was staying up, my middlest needed to stay up too.
So now our quiet dinner for two has turned into a boisterous meal of four followed by bed time. Usually at 11.
So maybe its time to rethink this whole on-time Shabbos thing.
posted by Air Time at 2:15 PM
8 Comments:
point well taken
glad you approve
welcome Red State - Enjoy the blog. It seems to change focus pretty frequently.
how bout stay up for kiddush and hamotzi and then to bed. i believe thats how it used to be done.
whats the point of having kids stay up an hour or two extra just to have kiddush and challah. Then they need to bentch, and right when you are about to have fish or soup they need to be tucked in or something.
...maybe have go to sleep for the game?
why is this not a possibility?
because the game already happened. Besides, I have no problem with his staying up late to watch a game.
I think you're in between the stage where late shabbos is great. We still love it. The kids go to bed on time and if they're up they can come down for kiddush and hamotzi.
Our kids bentch sefardi when they bentch by themselves and it is a lot quicker.
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