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PHILLY DEAF 3301 S. 20TH ST PHILADELPHIA, PA 19145

Family Mealtimes help your KIDS!

2/24/2012

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Did you know researchers have found FAMILY MEAL TIMES offer MANY benefits to KIDS as they are growing up?  In an article by Jean Lerche Davis on WEBMD.COM it says, "One of the simplest and most effective ways for parents to be engaged in their teens' lives is by having frequent family dinners," says Joseph Califano Jr., chairman and president of The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA).CASA recently reported on a national phone survey of 1,000 teens and 829 parents of teens. Eating dinner as a family helped kids in many ways. It helped them get better grades, and kept them away from cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana, and more.

7 Benefits of Family Dinners:
  • Everyone eats healthier meals. and are less to become overweight.
  • Kids are more likely to stay away from cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, and drugs.
  • School grades will be better.
  • You and your kids will talk more.
  • You'll be more likely to hear about a serious problem.
  • Kids will feel like you're proud of them.
  • There will be less stress and tension at home."
  • I would add that Family Meals give Christian parents an chance to talk to their kids about God and the Bible. Which is a command for us from Deuteronomy 6:4-9 4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. 5 Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. 6 These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. 7 Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. 8 Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. 9 Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

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