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As a professional counselor, I've learned that food plays an integral part in drawing human beings together. It also plays a big role when it comes to family stability.
Yet we see an ever-increasing trend within society to diminish the amount of time families spend together in enjoying an evening meal or dinner. This trend has been growing at an alarming speed.
The evening meal may in fact be the only time families sit down together (if they even do). Nowadays with the availability of every type of modern media easily accessible, family time faces an even greater challenge when competing with TV and other enticing forms of entertainment. When parents and children don't set aside time to really converse with each other, a key ingredient to keeping the family stable is lost.
One of the most important ways to find out how everyone in the family has been feeling, and what they've been doing all day, is to search for and institute creative ways to make the dinnertime experience fun! Parents can make dinnertime a unique, special and enjoyable time to build values they wish their children to live by.
Good food, good conversations and good laughter-that's what family dinners are supposed to be made of. But our busy schedules are making it hard for our families to pencil in mealtime together. Does it really matter?
The most common reason teenagers give as to why family dinners are not more frequent is that "parents work late."
The most common reason parents give is "conflicting schedules."
Other common reasons include "families choosing to not eat together," "interference of teen activities" and "television watching that simply cannot be missed."
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