Nowadays, most parents are career oriented and having time to eat dinner together with their children is a dream. All duties on cooking, serving the children and helping them sleep has been left to the house-helps.
You hide by saying you are too tired, have some office work yet to complete, the next day you have to wake up earlier than before or maybe you have an important office call before retiring to bed. This will negatively affect children.
Sharing a dinner with your children will be important in the following ways;
1. Development of strong parent-child bond
Families who take dinner together helps the children to have strong bonds with their parents and will feel free to talk and ask questions. This will also improve their self-confidence. The children are assured of love, care and support.
2. Learn out different skills
Allowing your children to clear the tables and take the utensils to the kitchen after dinner will instil a sense of responsibility and they will learn to do it better the next time. They will also learn on good table manners such as chewing while the mouth is closed or not talking when having food in their mouths.
3. Improves children's mental health
Based on research, children who take dinner with their parents have lower chances of depression and also a low risk of indulging in drug abuse. This is because they are able to speak out what they want or feel.
4. Improved grades
Children who take dinner with their parents will have a high chance of being instructed to do any homework given, revise or ask difficult questions realized. The parents also help the children on revision and use different tricks to apply to get correct answers or on how to approach questions.