Does Eating Together Beat Reading Together????
IT'S TRUE! Researcher Catherine Snow and her colleagues at the Harvard Graduate School of Education tracked literacy skills in early childhood development and found that young children learned, on average, 143 words by reading with their parents and 1000 words by eating meals with their parents.Christine Carter, author of Raising Happiness, also promotes family dinner, and shares a wide array of advantages to sharing family meals, including:
1. better health
2. better grades
3. better emotional stability
4. better relationships
5. better chances of bypassing the use of alcohol, drugs, smoking
6. better vocabulary
7. better social skills
WebMD Article
Purdue University Center for Families’ Promoting Family Meals Project
Ellyn Satter Associates
So set a New Year's Resolution that can improve your family in so many ways: Plan to eat more meals together!
If you need some inspiration for dinner table conversations, here are some fun games and books to get you going:
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