An Hour That Makes All the Difference

Really? Eating together can do all this?

". . . teens who eat dinner with their families are 40% more likely to get good grades, as well as 42% less likely to engage in underage drinking, 59% less likely to smoke, and 66% less likely to use drugs. They are also much less likely to suffer from depression, fight with other kids, get in trouble at school, and engage in promiscuous behavior. In a related study, researchers found that children who ate dinner with their families every day or on most days were 15% less likely to be overweight than children who never or only sometimes ate dinner with another family member."

An Hour That Makes All the Difference