Family Dinners
08/19/09 08:28 AM
I recently found an article that reinforced a common notion - quality time spent with children improves their overall functioning. Hmmm. Not a new discovery, right? Research has now proven that kids who have regular family dinners (as few as 2-3 per week) do better in school, have larger vocabularies and better behavior than their non-dinner eating peers. They are also less likely to “smoke, drink, do drugs, have eating disorders, become depressed or to have sex: things the Cleavers never seemed to worry about. Oh, they also get better nutrition”. Read the entire article and try to make a commitment to eat at least a few regular dinners as a family during this school year!
