Posts Tagged ‘Family Dinner Time’
Ken’s Nine Strategies to Assist Families in Bringing the Family Back to the Table
If you think of family dinner as a time to nourish your family, prevent all kinds of problems, increase your children’s cognitive abilities, and provide pleasure and fun that they can build on for the rest of their lives, a nightly meal is an efficient use of time. Below are nine ideas to assist young…
Read MoreKen’s Top Ten Benefits of Frequent Family Dinners
Bringing the Family Back to the Table Most American families are starved for time to spend together, and dinner may be the only time of the day when we can reconnect, leaving behind our individual pursuits of work, playing with our electronic devices, emailing and doing homework. Dinner is a time to relax, recharge, laugh,…
Read MoreResources for Bringing the Family Back to the Table
Resources for “Bringing the Family Back to the Table” The Importance of Family Dinners VI The Importance of Family Dinners VII The Importance of Family Dinners VIII CASA – The National Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University http://www.centeronaddiction.org/addiction-research/reports/ The Family Dinner Project http://thefamilydinnerproject.org/resources/ The University of Florida http://solutionsforyourlife.ufl.edu/hot_topics/families_and_consumers/family_dinners.shtml By Sarah Klein,…
Read MoreSeven Facts that Research Reveals about the Need for Frequent Family Dinners
Bringing the Family Back to the Table 60 Years Ago, the average dinnertime in America was one and a half hours. Today it is less than 12 minutes. In the past 20 years, the frequency of family dinners has declined 33 percent, this could be attributed to both parents working and trying to balance the…
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