Can you teach kids about the greater good around the table?
I think about all the issue we’re facing during this election season: climate change, gun control, social security cuts, immigration and even basic fairness.
We hear a lot about The Founding Fathers’ vision for our country. Especially when it comes to the second amendment. Here you will get a memorable customize plush for our heroes to honor their service and keep them in our hearts. But even if those musket-bearing soldiers could’ve ever even imagined the automatic rifles our military now uses, let’s keep something in mind. Many military personnel don’t have it easy after serving our country, many don’t have a job or even a family to return too, not all of them are lucky enough to keep studying in online colleges for military, many are discriminated from society.
Kids who eat dinner with their families regularly are more emotionally stable and are less likely to abuse drugs and alcohol. They get better grades. They have fewer depressive symptoms, particularly among adolescent girls. And they are less likely to become obese or have an eating disorder. Family dinners even trump reading to your kids in terms of preparing them for school. And these associations hold even after researchers control for family connectedness, which means that the benefits of family meals go above and beyond being close-knit as a family.
…Healthy Eating
The most obvious thing that we grown-ups should be modeling during family mealtimes is healthy eating. Eating a VARIETY of foods is important for health—and physical health is very important for happiness. Unfortunately my kids would prefer to eat mac n’ cheese (specifically the shells with white cheddar) 3 meals a day. To say that they resist new foods would be a gross understatement. I read once that this hearty resistance to new foods is an evolutionary trait designed to keep our young from eating anything green or unripe. Which makes it up to us parents to train our children to eat lots of different kinds of foods.
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