Family Dinner | A Challenge

Family dinner.

Nowadays, it sounds like a luxury for a family to be able to sit down at the table together in order to have family dinner.

Between soccer practice, baseball season, dance class, piano lessons, play dates, and a whole host of other activities and distractions, families are not sitting at the table together as often.

What are the benefits of family dinner?

• teen substance abuse is lower
• healthier eating habits are developed
• teen girls are less likely to contemplate suicide
• it can be a prevention measure to childhood obesity
• adolescents are emotionally healthier

These benefits alone seems well worth the effort of meal planning and designating a time for the family together around the table a few times a week.

Why do we do it?

• Because we enjoy our time together around the table.
• Because our children are learning proper table manners.
• Because our children are learning how to take the time to sit and eat with us and engage in conversation.
• Because our table has seen lots of laughter and messes.
• Because Brian and I grew up having family dinner, and we want to pass along this great tradition to our own children.

I am joining bloggers across the nation in encouraging families to sit down together to enjoy a family dinner.

It is a time together that you will not regret.

Studies for my post came from here and here.