Tag: Family Dinners

Making the most of mealtime with your family

Did you know that families who eat a meal together are happier and healthier? Perdue University’s Extension Nutrition Education Program encourages families to make mealtime family time as you cook, eat, and talk together! This can build your family’s relationship, promote healthy eating, foster your children’s sense of family stability, save money, develop everyone’s cooking skills, help your children develop important social skills, and even let everyone try new foods.

Click HERE to learn more from Perdue University Extention Nutrition Program.

Need some cheap and easy dinner ideas for your family? We shared some recipes from Country Living. They include pictures of every recipe so you can see what amazing food you can make You may even have some of these ingredients in your pantry now so you could even try one tonight!

Click HERE for 68 cheap dinner ideas for families from Country Living.

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Do your kids have good manners?

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Today, The Morning Thing focused on manners. Marcy Rinehart and Todd McKinley shared tips for taking young children out to eat this holiday weekend.
Click HERE to see 10 ways to help your next restaurant visit go a little smoother.

We also shared a guide from www.parents.com
Click HERE to see this age guide that has everything you need to know to raise polite, well-mannered children, no matter their age or stage.

This weekend is a perfect time to put some of these tips into practice. It’s a holiday weekend. Take the family out for dinner and practice good manners.

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Burger Day and Family Dinners – let’s CELEBRATE! The Morning Thing 8/25/16

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On Thursday’s show we celebrated Burger Day! Yes! If you love a good burger, make sure that you check out these 36 yummy burger recipes.
Click HERE to see 36 Killer Burger Recipes. If YOU are the chef, grab your “Kiss-the-BBQ-Chef” apron. 🙂

We also shared 7 reasons why eating family dinners together is very important.
Anne K. Fishel, Ph.D. shared these thoughts on www.parenting.com
Over the last 20 years, dozens of studies have confirmed what parents have known intuitively for a long time: Sitting down for a nightly dinner is good for the spirit, the brain and the body. Research shows that shared meals are tied to many teenage behaviors that parents pray for: reduced rates of substance abuse, eating disorders and depression; and higher grade point averages and self-esteem. For young children, conversation at the table is a bigger vocabulary booster than reading aloud to them. The icing on the cake is that kids who eat regular family dinners grow up to be young adults who eat healthier and have lower rates of obesity.

Click HERE to see Anne’s 7 reasons why you should plan a family dinner soon!
Anne K. Fishel, Ph.D., author of “Home for Dinner: Mixing Food, Fun and Conversation for a Happier Family and Healthier Kids,” is the director of the Family and Couples Therapy Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and an associate clinical professor of psychology at the Harvard Medical School. She is the cofounder of The Family Dinner Project and writes the popular blog “Digital Family” for “Psychology Today.” You can follow her on Facebook and Twitter.

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