Although lots of parents consider family mealtimes important, they may also dread the planning and preparation involved.
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All that planning, shopping, prepping, serving and cleaning can pay off with better physical and mental health for all members of the family.
Research shows that cooking with your kids helps them try more foods, eat more healthily and waste less food. It also offers opportunities to practise math and bond as a family.
If New Year’s resolutions have you in an abstemious mindset when it comes to enjoyment these days, consider a pleasure recalibration based on ‘l'éducation du gout.’
Our panel discusses the benefits of gathering for an annual holiday meal. Traditions and rituals give us a sense of identity and closeness with those we love – and come with mental and physical health benefits too.
Family meals – with lively conversation, storytelling and discussions of books and the tales they contain – feed children’s literacy skills.
As a family therapist, I often have the impulse to tell families to go home and have dinner together rather than spending an hour with me. And 20 years of research in North America, Europe and Australia…
In a successful civilization every activity becomes a genuine education. All pursuits approach the dream of “motherhood”: citizens are gently and lovingly raised to be more noble, empathetic, playful…
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Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology, Harvard University
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Director of the Family Resiliency Center and Professor of Human Development & Family Studies, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor Emerita of Family Therapy, UMass Amherst
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Faculty Member of The School of Life, London, University of Oxford
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PhD Candidate, Queensland University of Technology
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Registered Dietitian and Project Coordinator, University of Guelph
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Assistant Professor of Applied Nutrition & Registered Dietitian, University of Guelph
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Research Fellow, Caring Futures Institute, Flinders University
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Chercheuse associée en sociologie au Centre Max Weber UMR 5283, Université Lumière Lyon 2
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Professor of Family Social Science, University of Minnesota
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Research Fellow, Australian Centre for Behavioural Research in Diabetes, Deakin University