Bring Back Family Dinners in Portsmouth
Why and how to put this important ritual back into your busy family’s schedule.
If you found one thing that would help your child perform better academically, grow up with a solid sense of self-esteem and resist drugs, alcohol abuse and sexual promiscuity, would you do it? What if it was as easy as having dinner together regularly as a family? Research by the Emory University Center for Myth and Ritual in American Life (MARIAL Center) showed that having family dinners together around the table has the potential to provide a child with all of the above benefits. Here are some ideas and resources that can help you make having a nightly family dinner together a reality. Great Tips for Really Busy Families in The Family Dinner The thought of trying to sit down together to a homemade meal every day may seem like an …
TheOneCalledZed
8:00 pm on Tuesday, January 29, 2013
I agree family dinners are critical; the worst things that parents can do is to begin the practice of asking the kids, "What would you like for dinner?", as if each kid gets to order from a menu. It is up to the dinner-maker to blend the preferences - and good nutrition - and the time available - to come up with the meal, and up to both parents (if there are two) to backstop a family culture of … more ›