Family Meals: The Most Important Thing
Making Family Meals a Priority
Family Meals
As we get back to school and life gets busy, it is easy to let family meals slip in importance. Study after study shows, however, that on multiple factors, making family meals a priority is the single most important thing we can do for our kids’ health.
Benefits of Family Meals
- Physical Health- According to the American Association of Pediatrics, families who eat 3 or more family meals together per week, reduce their odds for being overweight by 12% and eating unhealthy foods by 20%.
- Academia- Family meals and the dinner conversations that accompany them increase children’s vocabulary and ability to produce and understand stories.
- Psychological- Family meals give children a place to be heard and understood.
- By the teenage years, teens who eat dinner together report lower teen pregnancy rates, depression, and eating disorders.
Making Family Meals a Priority
On the side of mom, however, it is difficult to get healthy meals on the table every night with overwhelmed schedules when it is much easier to pick up fast food! READ MORE HERE
