Family Meetings

I've tried a new approach lately when I need to remind the kids of some important things or house rules. We have family meetings. We all get together and then I tell them the issue at hand and then Michael adds on to it and then all the kids get to talk. After the first one (about dinner time), Elizabeth kept asking to have family meetings. She didn't have anything to actually talk about, but she liked calling them.

We had one tonight (about staying in bed at night and being quiet in the morning) and once again, they all enjoyed it. Parker picked the order of who talked when and added "I never get up at night". When Miranda's turn came up she told some story about piggy bank. Then Elizabeth had her turn and she had to tell some tale about her baby and some nightmare. None of it made any sense.