Family Dinners Are Good For Teenagers

[longknife]

A family actually eating dinner together. Without texting or other social media stuff? That would be the biggest revolution in our modern society.


It takes some big-shot researcher to discover this?


Read the article @ Family dinners are good for teenagers mental health and may combat the effects of cyberbullying Mail Online

 

[Moonglow]

I would have loved to had family diners growing up in my teen years..

 

[Moonglow]

I would have loved to had family dinners growing up in my teen years..

I raised my kids by making sure we did have family dinners...

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Last family get-together at my Mom's with my brother and his wife the 3 of them were on their phones, I refusing to own one was teasing them likening their inertness to being zombies (and I wrote a thread to that effect later.) 'The real zombie apocalyse' or something like that.

 

[Moonglow]

No phones or computers at the dinner table in my house....

 

[longknife]

I cannot say how many times I've gone to restaurants to watch a group sit down at a table to eat - each one busy on their cell phones and ignoring their companions.

Why not just go alone?

 

[Moonglow]

I cannot say how many times I've gone to restaurants to watch a group sit down at a table to eat - each one busy on their cell phones and ignoring their companions.

Why not just go alone?

I worked security at night clubs, people dancing while surfing their phones....how rude...

 

[Pennywise]

We ate every supper as a family. Drank milk at every meal, got an occasional soda as a treat. Mom made everything from scratch. School lunch was a sandwich and a slice of home made (scratch, not boxed) layer cake wrapped in wax paper. Ten cents for milk. Every day from Kindergarten through HS graduation.

 

[Pennywise]

And lunch was in a brown bag. No lunch boxes, too extravagant.

 

[Moonglow]

I had a lunch box, Superman, I only drank chocolate milk, it was 5 cents..I hated plain milk,still do.

 

[Pennywise]

I had a lunch box, Superman, I only drank chocolate milk, it was 5 cents..I hated plain milk,still do.

It was five cents in grammar school. The price exploded to ten cents later on.

 

[NLT]

We ate every supper as a family. Drank milk at every meal, got an occasional soda as a treat. Mom made everything from scratch. School lunch was a sandwich and a slice of home made (scratch, not boxed) layer cake wrapped in wax paper. Ten cents for milk. Every day from Kindergarten through HS graduation.

Moms sack lunches were the best

 

[Disir]

Whaaat? No electronics? At least once every two weeks for the past two years I've been subjected to the parental joys of Epic Rap Battles at dinner. It's a parental duty.



How have you managed to escape live with out it?

 

[auditor0007]

A family actually eating dinner together. Without texting or other social media stuff? That would be the biggest revolution in our modern society.


It takes some big-shot researcher to discover this?


Read the article @ Family dinners are good for teenagers mental health and may combat the effects of cyberbullying Mail Online

Some things are just common sense. I've always been a big supporter of family dinners, especially after my wife died. The kids and I eat dinner together as much as possible, although the oldest is away at recruit training for the USMC now.