A few years ago the Washington Post ran an article called “The Surprising Power of Family Meals: How Eating Together Makes us Smarter, Stronger, Healthier and Happier.”[i] The article reviewed research showing that eating “ordinary, average everyday supper with your family is strongly linked to lower incidence of bad outcomes such as teenage drug and alcohol use, and to good qualities like emotional stability. It correlates with kindergartners being better prepared to learn to read. . . . Regular family supper helps keep asthmatic kids out of hospitals. It discourages both obesity and eating disorders…It will help children and families to be more resilient, reacting positively to those curves and arrows that life throws our way.”
Are you eating with your family tonight?
[i]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/29/AR2005082901798_pf.html
