 According to the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse(CASA), children who eat family dinners:• Abuse drugs and alcohol less. • Have more nutritious diets. • Perform better in school. |
So the TV is turned off. Now what?
Nutritious foods make smarter happier kids. If you need convincing of this fact, the following are recommended reading.
– The Healing Power of Flax. Learn how flax and flaxseed oil and the omega 3 fatty acids they contain can nourish the brain, and dramatically benefit and help prevent such conditions as ADHD and depression., by Herb Joiner-Bey, N.D. Available at your health store.
– Sugar Blues by William Dufty (found on Amazon)
– Food, Teens, and Behavior by Barbara Reed (found on Alibris)
Ritalin vs. Omega 3 fatty acids
Ritalin classed with other dangerous drugs
Want Good Kids?
Featured Sites:
Family Day – A national effort to promote parental engagement as a simple, effective way to reduce youth substance abuse and raise healthier children.
Sharing meals strengthens family bonds
• Communication
— Active Listening
— How to Create a Safe Environment for Communication
— Harmony in the Home: 10 Tips and How Family Councils promote Harmony
— How to Satisfy your Adolescent’s Spiritual Hunger
ACTIVITIES (The Activities with *** are required.)
1. ***From now on, plan at least one night each week when your family will sit down and have a meal together. Same night every week, set aside, with no other outside distractions.
2. Make a Conversation Wheel
3. Read the Parable, “Fellowship of the King” . Set your table with two place settings. One with nice settings, a floral arrangement, and delicious food. The other with empty fast food bag and a bent pop can. Which setting is more suited to a visit from the King?
4. Decide as a family on one family night theme. Plan a nutritious meal, games, and treat to match the theme.
5. Discussion Questions
6. Parents’ Journal: Write down why family meals are important, and your commitment to have regular family meals in your home
RESOURCES
• Proclamation on the Family
• Dinner Talk Themes
• Children’s Character Building Activities
• How to Make a Conversation Wheel
• Daily Manna for the Modern Family
• Parables
Dinner Talk, — Leaven, — Fellowship of the King, — Two Families
• Parents’ Page
Family Night ideas
Step 2 Building Character thru the Bible