Don't say "eh?" And come to that, don't talk with your mouth full. Sit up straight and take your elbows off the table. And, very importantly, don't smoke dope between courses. Because we are in the run-up to Family Day: A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children. Although this milestone, to be celebrated on 22 September, is a strictly US event, it contains lessons for us all.
The chief of which is the discovery that it is not enough to say it's a good idea to eat together. You have to find killer facts to back it up. Hence the mind-blowing statistic quoted above. And there are plenty more where that came from. All show that "the more often children have dinner with their parents, the less likely they are to smoke, drink or use illegal drugs", according to Joseph A. Califano, Jr., chair and president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse.
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