Dining Together - The Key to Raising Happier Children
We’re all aware that communication is key to all relationships, but according to one parent coach, it’s actually a lot simpler than that. Although talking is definitely important in creating healthy, happy kids, another joint activity is no less important: eating.
North Wales, PA (PRWEB) February 3, 2006
We’re all aware that communication is key to all relationships, but according to one parent coach, it’s actually a lot simpler than that. Although talking is definitely important in creating healthy, happy kids, another joint activity is no less important: eating.
“Families who eat together, stay together,” says Terri Levine, a personal coach who has been helping stressed parents for more than twenty-five years. ‘When you sit down to dinner as a family, you create a unique setting in which nothing else concerns you, you have a communal understanding and you get time to talk to your children as well. It’s no coincidence that the happiest children I’ve seen all have dinner with their parents at the family dinner table at least once a week.”
And it’s not just the eating that’s important, says Terri. If the family can also cook and clean up together, that’s even better.
“The more things you do together as a family, the more successful you will be in raising happy children,” she declares.
Although eating together provides the greatest combination of benefits from planning the meal through chatting to doing the washing and drying, other joint activities can also be very effective. Long walks, church-going and singing all help in raising happy children.
For more information and for a fun, informative interview, call Terri Levine at 215-527-0634.
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