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I read through the archives to find if how you use CHC's Devotional Stories for Little Folks & DSLF Too. I see that a lot of people use it as a morning devotional, but I guess I got turned off when I opened the first book and read about that morning "visit" that Seth missed and subsequently didn't get breakfast (and didn't throw a fit about it). I felt like I can't start reading these until we have morning devotions at our house...before breakfast...so the books sit on my shelf.
We do a short morning prayer, but with so many littles, trying to read a story at a set time before breakfast would be insane. I'm just happy when I get everyone dressed and at the table to say grace together by 8-ish! Maybe I can just skip the first one...or are there other stories like that in the book that would make me feel like - "Well, if we were "good" Catholics we would be doing that too".
(Feel free to move this, if it's in the wrong place...)
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Stephanie, Don't feel bad. I think some stories resonate more with some than others. I haven't read these yet, so I can't comment specifically, but our stories tend to be about children that struggle, not very good already.
I can't do reading before breakfast, either. Mornings are really, really hard here.
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Remember unless you choose to limit your stories severly that you will be reading MANY about people that do things that you don't and/or differently than you do.
It's OK that you don't do devotions before breakfast.. no need for guilt.. so it's also ok to expose your children to some people do have devotions then. 
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We do morning devotions after the breakfast table is cleared, as one of my children needs to eat before she's rational in the morning (before she eats the slightest problem leads to a temper tantrum, after she eats she's a fairly calm if stubborn child). Our morning devotions are just prayers so far as we've been reading the devotional books at a different point in the day.
We discussed this when we read that story as an example of how every family does things differently. 
[I am planning to add a bit more to our morning devotions as I've done every year -I started with the Our Father, Hail Mary, Glory Be; then added a childs Morning Offering; then changed to the Morning Offering and a decade of the Rosary ....over about four years or so]
I would say that while the stories are a bit removed from our family (we live in a major city in Canada) we enjoy them and they mostly cover the normal struggles of childhood. There are a few which I find a bit much or which show me an area where we aren't doing as well as we could but it isn't a regular thing.
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We have read the stories that are recommended in the First Communion Prep Resource. I think we missed that one. We read them after our morning routines and chores. We do some reading aloud at the beginning of our school day. We think they're great.
We eat breakfast before we do anything. (Sometimes I remember to say grace.  ) I think of the family in the stories as one I might like us to be more like. It's OK that we're not like them now. We are who we are.
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Thanks - I think it was mostly the direct question: "Do you have morning devotions at your house?" in the text of the story - not as a reflection at the end that surprised me. We do a morning offering, but "devotionals" are kind of a new concept for me. I was raised Catholic, but public-schooled and we didn't pray the Rosary or anything like that as a family.
I'm glad to see we're not the only ones who can't function well before breakfast in the mornings - and that doesn't mean that food is more important than Jesus... 
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