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New Habits in the New YearHas your dinnertime just become part of the rush of the day? I feel like it should be a time for us to sit down, give thanks, and connect as a family. Unfortunately, it is often a rushed affair with some bickering, several different conversations going on, and perhaps the TV in the background. This year I would love to make a conscious effort to have dinnertime be a relaxing time when we all feel like we are able to speak and listen to one another.

The Family Dinner Box of Questions is a great new centerpiece to our dinner table. Now we can go around and answer questions such as

  • If you could have a wild animal from anywhere in the world as a pet, what animal would you choose?
  • What is your favorite smell in the whole world?
  • Which amusement park is your favorite and what is your favorite ride?

Aboxgirls.jpgs you can see, some of the questions could be answered by three-year-old Kyle, and almost all are relevant to nine-year old Amanda. I know that she enjoys asking and answering these questions, because it demonstrates to her that value her opinions. She also likes seeing different sides of Mom and Dad, so we get to see how much we know about each other.  When I asked the favorite smell question recently, Kyle jumped in quickly to answer for Daddy with “coffee!”

The Box Girls have designed cleverly packaged questions based on specific holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Passover), Girl’s Night, Slumber Party, and so many more. They also have a blog with some great posts answering sample questions from the various box sets.

Two readers will win the Family Dinner Box of Questions (or another box of your choice from their site). If you’d like to win, please leave a comment on this post, and check out the New Habits in the New Year guidelines at this main post.

Come back on January 9 to see if you have won. Please be sure that the email address that you provide is one that you check regularly, and also check your spam folder when the winners are announced if you see your name.

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579 Comments

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  3. Hello! I won this giveaway, emailed the person that was giving it away with my address, and have not received it yet. I am not sure how to locate her. . .can you help? Thanks!

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  5. Oh my family would love this! Its great to find something that brings the family together at the dinner table!

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  22. Family time is so important and this looks like a great way to get everyone involved in positive conversation.

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  25. this would be great. We have a blended family of 6 and are always looking at ways to strengthen our bond!

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  27. This would be great. We always have dinner together, without the tv on. This would be a great way to keep the 15 year old from inhaling her food just to go back to her tv. Please enter me too!

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  31. My family has just started to sit together for dinner. This would be a great help for making this a long-standing tradition instead of another failed attempt at bonding.

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  39. i think the dinner game is a great way to set down at dinner and leave all the days work behind, and remember that the family is why you get up each day.

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  48. Trying to connect with a teenage daughter who regularly snubs her stepdad, and my two year old toddler gets challenging if not impossible!

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  52. Ok, I am not trying to enter twice on purpose just cannot remember if i have or not, so I am now 🙂

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  54. I started a box of questions for the dinner table once upon a time… it worked well, but I ran out of ideas for conversation starters and just didn’t take time to sit down and add to it. I would love to get back into the conversations again! Thanks for having this contest.

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  73. I would be so nice to hear something other than grunts in answers to questions and “please pass the …” The box girls rock!

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  79. This is a fantastic idea! My family needs to do a much better job at this one. I think this will help. 🙂

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  80. This is such a great idea. Some of the best conversations our family had when I was young was around the dinner table. I would love for my girls to have fond memories like that one day too.
    Thanks!

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  82. The Family Dinner Box of Questions would make a great casual tool to get to know your kid’s friends; it’d also really set the tone for what’s important to your family and to set a standard of behavior for other kids visiting. Great idea!

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  86. Sounds great! I generaly read to my kids at dinner (only time I can get them to sit still.) I’m curently reading the 6th Harry Potter. But this sounds wonderful!

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  99. My daughter is only 15 months, but hey you’re never too young to eat dinner together, right? 🙂

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  114. I would love to win this! We need some family time conversation starters…with a 15 year old and a 3 year old we need to bridge the gap.

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  133. How fun this would be for our family!! Would love to win!
    Thank you for all of your fun contests and great recommendations to build stronger and more beautiful women!! 🙂

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  140. Oh I would love to win this! We’re one of the many family’s on here that would actually use it..=D But I wouldn’t say no to your handbags either–they are soo cute(and useful for that matter)!

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  149. This is the neatest idea! Not only would I like to win one, I’d like to have a few! And, what great gifts! I’m going to look over all of them right after I enter this contest and make a wish list for birthdays, holidays and for gifts.

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  160. Very cool giveaway – I’m a tad late (gracious – 400 some folks!), but can’t hurt to try!

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  194. Q: What’s the first thing you’d do if you won a prize giveaway?

    A: Share the news with friends and family, and ask them all to come play!

    🙂

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  203. This would be my dream. I hope to win. What a wonderful idea. Even if I don’t win, I plan to use this idea.

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  210. This would be great, my 3 older kids LOVE to ask questions (often off the wall), so something like this would give me some ammo!

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  228. this is a great idea! We have made the switch to no TV and phone calls during dinner, this would be a great additions to the new routine!

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  243. These are so clever. It is an exciting way to get your friends & family connecting with each other. I hope I win one!
    April

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  250. these sound like the kind of questions my son comes up with on a regular basis. The dinner box sounds like a great idea …. a way to communicate more around the table and not always get sucked into having the tv on in the background. I’d love to win this!

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  262. This would be great to use in our family! We love ways to spark new conversations.

    Thanks for a chance to win!

    sharvey at connections-etc dot net

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  278. I would love to win this. We’re trying to get in the habbit of eating dinner together, ad this would help a lot.

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  285. What a nice idea for busy families to connect. I like the fact that the questions are appropriate for all ages as my boys are 6 and 13.

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  286. We have the Passover, Hanukkah, and Shabbat boxes and LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them. I’d love to have another for everyday use 🙂 I find that it really helps with communication, and, as my dd is teetering on the verge of adolescence, anything I can do to encourage the communication to stay open can only help. Right?

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  289. Since we have four kids at the house as opposed to the usual one, dinner time has been a stressful event. This may be the perfect thing!

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  304. I totally love this. I am really into games that spark conversation, so this would definitely be ideal!! I would love to win 🙂

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  307. My family would definitely benefit from this great set of conversation starters. What creative and fun questions to discuss over our meals!

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  314. I’m a little slow on catching on to the fun happenings here, but this dinner question thing looks really cool! Thanks ladies!

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  316. What a great way to connect at dinner time. Sounds like a great prize. At dinner I feel as though we don’t talk as much as we should.

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  324. Oooh, this is such a cool thing! I think after a diner this is a a wonderful item to pull out to continue the dinner calm. I’ve tried to win this for a while–it would be a blast to win!!

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  335. I would SOOOO love to win this! I’ve seen it and have wanted it ever since!

    Happy New Year!
    ~melody~

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  344. Oh I love this idea – especially the girl-friends and the girls night out boxes. My family already talks all the way through dinner but something like this might give new insight to what our kids think

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  346. This would be so fun for the family to play. Our family enjoys playing board games and being silly. This would help with our imaginations and would be neat to see what answers we all come up with.

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  354. I think the newest question in the Family Dinner Box should be: “OMG did I really win this??!!”
    Thanks for a great giveaway-and happy new year!

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  355. I’m always looking for creative ways to distract my girls from realizing they’re putting food in their mouths. Hope I win!

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  357. I would LOVE this. We are really trying to get into the family dinner habit with our kids and I think my 3 yr old would love this product.

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  358. I love LOVE your blog! I just found it a few days ago and I have already learned so much!! Anyhoo, these cards would do wonders for my dinner time experience, which now consists of my preschooler refusing to eat what I’ve given him, my husband arguing with my preschooler, and myself trying to eat as fast as I can so I can feed my infant! Pick me! Pick me!! 🙂

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  362. I LOVE THIS IDEA! I have a three year old and she is always wanting to leave the table. What a great way to get and keep her involved at the dinner table. Great, great idea!

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  368. my kids are getting older so this would come in handy to help prevent the yes and no responses that we often get after a long day at school.

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  369. Oh, this would help make dinner time less of a silent affairs. Cool product – I would love to win. Thanks for the giveaway!

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  372. Neat. I’ve been seeing a resurgence in these sorts of items. I think that even Chik-fil-a got into it recently with one of their Kid’s meal things – all sorts of discussion starting questions. Looking over the site, the Family one is the only one really relevant to our family at this point (at least with Christmas being passed for ~ a year).

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  377. Um. I don’t think my chances of winning are very good, but count me in! It sounds cool. Even if I don’t win I’m going to have to get one.

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  386. what a great idea- i think that my husband and i are too tired by the end of the day to get a conversation really started and this would be a great way to go

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  391. This would be the perfect thing to take a my family reunion in July. The Girls Night Out would be perfect for our girls road trip in April. I could think of a few uses for several of the sets on their site. This is a great giveaway and I am so excited to enter!

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  393. That sounds so interesting! It might be just the ticket to get my boys to talk about something other than sports and music! LOL

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  414. This looks like something we would enjoy at our house. They girls love stuff like this. Count me in please. Thanks for offering this great giveaway.

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  418. I would absolutely love to have this! It would be fun not just for dinner time but just for any time we’re trying to spend together!

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  425. I would love this. I am Autistic so this would be a great way to get more invovled socially with my siblings!

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  440. FUN:) Please count me in! Trying to post button, but I think that something is wrong with blogger right now. Will try again later.

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  444. This is BRILLIANT!! So many families don’t have meals together today; really a brilliant and innovative idea!! My daughter and her kids could sure use this!!

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  451. That looks very fun. My boys would be all over those ?’s and it would make for some interesting dinners. LOL.

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  456. We always have dinner together and do a ‘what was your favorite part of the day’ question, but this would be great fun. Thanks for the chance to win!

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  462. OH this looks great. This would be so great. I could grab this instead of a tub of ice cream! My family will love the questions! And then I won’t feel as guilty about eating dessert just before watching the Biggest Loser on Tv.

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  464. what a GREAT idea! My husband, daughters and I make it a priority to try to have dinner together at home at least 5 times a week. These would make excellent conversation starters! Enter me in please! Thank you!

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  485. Our dinner conversation is often pretty bland. Like “so…..what did you do at school today?” We could use some spicing up!

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  498. I would love the Family Box of Questions. WE have ask questions like that and it is a lot of fun, but sometimes I run out of questions. I hope I win.This is a great idea. Have a great 2008!!!!

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  505. Wow! What a fantastic idea. Lately everyone in my family wants to park in front of the tv. This Family Box Dinner of Questions sounds like something everyone would gather together at the dinner table to particpate in.

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  507. This is a great idea! We use BrainQuest sometimes and this would be a great way to mix it up. Please count me in.

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  509. These boxes are a great idea! And, I agree 100% about spending an un-rushed meal together everyday (some families work schedules do not permit that to be dinner, so maybe breakfast works best for them).

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  513. Wow, my son will definitely enjoy playing this game. I also like that fact that it is educational and that the company will donate a percentage of the sales to CASA. Great cause!

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  516. I love the idea of these sets. The holiday versions are such a great idea for starting a new tradition. Plus the packaging is really cute.

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  520. This would be really fun to use for big family dinners with my in laws. Help get the conversation going on other things than the usual!

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  528. Oh that would be a fantastic idea to use those to connect. I will be going back to school and 4 days a week our time at dinner will be limited what a great way to reconnect on the other 3 days a week!

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  529. With alot of my siblings getting older now, it’s hard to have a dinner together anymore….I think that this box of Q’s would definitely make them stick around for dinner!

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  536. Ok, I would LOVE to get my paws on THIS item! I am trying to make sure that our family has open lines of communication now so that when my daughter gets older, it is just habit. One thing that we have done is made Friday night a games night. We make our own pizza and play games after dinner.

    This product would be a welcomed addition in our household for sure!

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  538. What a novel idea for stimulating family conversation at the dinner table! I think the everyone would look forward to the daily question, and would hurry to the dinner table as soon as they were called!

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  548. This looks like a lot of fun. I have 14 and 8 year old boys. This could open up a whole can of questions! 😉 hehehe Thanks for the opportunity!

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  566. I’d love to win this! My daughter’s a little young for this now but I can see using it for a long, long time!

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  567. I would love to win this. I believe in family dinners, and make sure we have a least one meal together day. I love to sit with all of my four kids and husband to eat. My family would love this game.

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  570. cool idea
    put me in the draw please
    we do sit around the table and talk but this would add something extra to our discussions

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  572. Another fantastic contest. Our family plays board games and such a lot. We have started a new tradition and every Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we play games for hours. I would love to add this game to our repertoire! Thanks very much…..Cindi

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  576. I’ve been trying for a while now to win one of the great boxes from The Box Girls. I’d love, love, LOVE to win, so please do count me in! Happy New Year to you & yours!

    Jennifer

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