Family Dinners - Happy, Healthier Kids
Looking for one of the best ways to keep the lines of communication open with your child and to ensure your child is happier not to mention all-round healthier? Try having more family dinners together.
Family dinners, where everyone sits around the table and eats together on average 5 times per week, have proven to have nothing but positive affects on children. Over the course of the dinner parents build stronger bonds with their child. They communicate about school, teachers and classroom struggles. They learn more about the child's friends and activities. They build strong relationships that families who have relatively few family dinners get the chance to do.
Plus, families who dine together generally eat healther food. Everyone knows that home cooked meals are far more nutritious than fast food or TV dinners. Even when time is scarce and the family is on the run, there are ways to ensure mealtime togetherness like preparing meals ahead of time, using a slowcooker or involving family nembers in the meal preparation.
So the next time you're tempted to just let everyone grab what they want from the array of frozen entries stacked sky high in the freezer and head out the door before you even have a chance to ask "How was your day?", rethink the situation. There are too many pluses to family dinners not to make them a top priority with your family.
Happy dining,
Catherine Pruissen
CEO/Founder
http://childcare.net
