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Eating Dinner with Your Kids Despite Their Protests
Contrary to many parents’ expectations, most teenagers actually wanted to eat with their families, according to a poll of 1,063 teenagers and 550 parents. “Overall about 84 percent of the kids said they would prefer to have dinner with their parents,” said Elizabeth Planet, project manager of the survey commissioned by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at New York’s Columbia University. Also, teens who had two or fewer meals a week with their families were 3.5 times more likely to have abused prescription medication, 3 times more likely to have used marijuana, and 1.5 times more likely to drink alcohol. The teens who ate regularly with their families also got better grades, with 64 percent reporting mostly As and Bs compared to 49 percent of other teens.
(Reuters, September 20)
Recommended Books
- Hurt: Inside the World of Today’s Teenagers by Chap Clark
- Disconnected: Parenting Teens in a MySpace World by Chap Clark
- Boundaries in Dating by Dr. Henry Cloud
- And the Bride Wore White by Danna Gresh
- Worldliness: Resisting the Seduction of a Fallen World by C. J. Mahaney
- Messy Spirituality by Mike Yaconelli
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