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A random nationwide survey by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University found a recent rise in the number of children ages 12 to 17 who said they ate dinner with their families at least five times a week, to 58 percent last year from 47 percent in 1998.
“There’s definitely an awareness that was not there a few years ago,” said Miriam Weinstein, author of “The Surprising Power of Family Meals: How Eating Together Makes Us Smarter, Stronger, Healthier and Happier

Families that do have dinner together often are families whose parents are fully engaged with their kids.
Social scientists have been praising the benefits of family dinners for years. A number of studies show that children who eat dinner with their families regularly are less likely to get involved with drugs and alcohol than those who do not. They also tend to get better grades, exhibit less stress and eat better.

The study by the Columbia center showed that compared with teenagers who have five or more family dinners a week, those who have two or less are three times as likely to try marijuana, two and half times as likely to smoke cigarettes and one and half times as likely to try alcohol.

Growing up we always eat dinner together as a family, not necessarily at the table but we would all eat at the same time. It was fun, for some of us, I said some of us because one of the perks or downside of this togetherness we were all in each others business. When it was your bizwack being laid out it may not be all that fun for you but still a good laugh.

I never forget the first time a boy wrote me a love letter, I tried to hide because I was embarrassed not sure why but I was. Unfortunately one of my cousins found it and right in the middle of dinner with every body he step on a chair and start reading it everybody was going oooh and aaahh! I remember being so mad I took it out of the poor little boy who wrote me and told him it was his fault! part of it sucks but it did create a sense of accountability toward each other. If anyone was thinking about doing something naughty you’d think twice about it cause you already know its going to be dinner talk subject. It also teach us teamwork, if we’d learn that one of us is in trouble we would all pitch in. It is like that in my family till today. So I got to say I kinda of agree with this study, dinner time is happy time, people talk, kids talk, its a great time to bond, share and know what is going on in your spouses/kids life. When you in the know, you are better equipped to guide and assist them.
I say YAY for family dinners!
What’s your family dinners memories? do you think eating dinner or not with your family make you a better person today (or not)? SHARE!

PS: The statistics of the research was published in a NY times article

To celebrate Earth day today
Kailee and I water the hibiscus, Kaylee couldn’t do it because it seems like just like her daddy she is allergic to pollen. I had to move my 2 hibiscus plant up to the balcony from the patio because both of them started to get real sick, my husband think its the flowers so I moved them just in case.

Anyway, we water all our plant, listen to birds, watch squirrel – later on we going to plant corn in a can!

I use to love doing that when I was a kid. I’ll plant 3 or 4 corn seeds in a can water it everyday and watch it grow. I use to have cans corn, black beans, papaya everything we eat that had a seed I would plant it. Too bad I never let them produce anything cause I would touch them too much, I always accidentally break the stem or drop the can or get bored cause it wasn’t growing fast enough. Hopefully this time around I can teach Kailee to be patient and not be like mommy was.

Happy Earth Day! What are you doing to celebrate? took your kids to work?

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Yesterday mark the 3 months anniversary since the killer 7.0 magnitude hit the island of Haiti, and killed nearly 250,000 of its people while leaving another 2 million destitute and helpless. I was heart broken for these people and at the same time feeling oh so helpless, now that feeling has change to hope because Cryo-Cell will donate $25 from each enrollment to the “Save the Children: Haiti Relief Fund”. if you enroll now with Cryo-cell you will be securing the future of your own baby, your family and you are also contributing to the future of one little Haitian kid. Cryo-Cell is the only cord blood bank making that possible.

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