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Weekend reads: Make sure you sit down to family dinner this weekend
Your weekend is busy, but sitting down for a meal with the family should be part of it. We’ve got a roundup of good advice on how to get it done from across the Web.
Fri, Feb 15 2013 at 5:26 PM
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It’s Friday! When my family and I sit down in a while for family dinner, it will be to the most incredible Sicilian pizza from a local, family owned pizzeria. It’s my night off from cooking, but it’s not a night off from the ritual of eating together. Most of the other evenings this week, I’ve prepared healthy family dinners for us to share together.
I thought I’d leave you with a little weekend reading on the importance of family dinner and some advice on how to make it happen.
- Bon Appetit has been offering a Family Dinner Primer this week on the website. They have articles on How to Eat with Your Kids Without Losing Your Mind, Learn How to Shop, and more to help families put the ritual into place.
- I really like this piece on Babble titled Why We Bother With Family Dinner. The author comments that it “anchors my family like nothing else” and gives six reasons why they bother to do it even though they have hectic schedules.
- I interviewed Laurie David, author of “The Family Dinner” for a feature piece in Edible Jersey magazine. She gave several tips for successful family dinners, including one that I think is so incredibly important to make it manageable, “cook for the family, not for the kids.”
- If you’re very interested in learning more about the importance of family dinner and how it fits into your life, look into going to The Family Dinner Conference on April 18 in New York City.
Enjoy your weekend!
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It should be added that family dinner should be a time for asking other family members how their day was, what they did, etc. I see families in restaurants where the adults are engaged in conversation and the bored kids have their DS's, iPods, etc. out, silently playing games.