6 ways to make family dinner happen
A few years ago, family dinners weren’t happening in my house. My kids were young with, and my husband and I both worked full-time. As a longtime parenting editor, I was well aware of the benefits kids reap from the family eating together: higher grades, lower risk of depression, better vocabulary and more fruit and veggie intake. But making a dinner we would all eat + giving baths + reading bedtime books was an equation I just couldn’t make work, and it gnawed away at me.
A few years later, my school-age kids have later bedtimes, which helps a lot. We also made some big life decisions that led to more reasonable working hours. Most of all, I’ve figured out a few tricks and shortcuts to making this together time happen—and making it count. Sometimes it’s rushed, and sometimes it’s less than civilized, but it does happen almost every night.
some day, but there’s a 100 percent chance he’ll reap the social and nutritional benefits of eating together.I cannot stress enough how much family dinners hinge on thinking ahead so there’s no 4 p.m. oh-crap-what’s-for-dinner panic-shopping. Spec out your meal plan on the weekend (special meal planning notepads or apps like
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