One Parent's Challenge

Flipping through the Life section of the Globe & Mail, I came across an articleBrought together by Dad's burritos, which was an excerpt from a book Dinner with Dadby Cameron Stracher. Upon Googling the name I came up with, not only the Book, but the Stracher's blog, also titled Dinner with Dad.

What I found interesting about the idea behind the book and, in part, the blog is Stracher's self-imposed challenge: "Dinner with Dad, five nights a week" for a year. He was a self-described Type A personality who was never home for dinner but on the occasion when he was in the kitchen, he quite enjoyed it.

Do we as parents need to be challenging ourselves to do something different? To break some habits that take away from our quality of family life? What is it that each of us can do, like Stracher, to give us some meaningful connection to our kids and partners?