Category: Newsletter
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[:en]Keep Track of Your Family Dinner Goals This Year[:]
[:en]Track your family dinner goals this year with resources from The Family Dinner Project! Get our best tools, tips and tricks for staying on top of mealtimes.[:]
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[:en]Teaching Kids Responsibility Through Family Dinner[:]
[:en]Teaching kids responsibility is important to parents. But how can you get them helping out, especially at mealtimes? Check out our top tips.[:]
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[:en]New Ways to Connect at Thanksgiving (and beyond)[:]
[:en]Make Thanksgiving meaningful with these food, fun and conversation ideas to help you connect and remember the “thanks” and “giving.”[:]
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[:en]Top Tips From Our New Book[:]
[:en] After many months of hard work and anticipation, we’re proud to announce that our new book is finally available online and in stores! Eat, Laugh, Talk: The Family Dinner Playbook contains 52 weeks of family-friendly recipes, games and conversation starters to make family dinners easy and attainable. Better yet, the book is a collection…
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[:en]How to Help Kids Develop Courage[:]
[:en] When asked what qualities they’d most like to see their children develop, parents often list courage or bravery among the top ten. It’s easy to see why: it seems as though anxiety is on the rise among both kids and adults. Increasingly, parents share their worries about kids who are too scared to sleep…
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[:en]Family Dinner in an Empty Nest[:]
[:en]Family dinners change after the kids leave home, but that doesn’t mean they stop being important. Get our tips for making the most of empty-nest meals.[:]
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[:en]Family Dinner on the Road[:]
[:en] We usually tell families to try to keep dinner on the calendar even during the unstructured months of summer. But what happens when you’re not going to be home for dinner, or home at all? Vacations,“staycations,” day trips and unpredictable last-minute plans can all make family meals difficult to schedule. And for some families,…
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[:en]Beating the “I’m Bored” Blues[:]
[:en]With summer vacation come the “I’m bored” blues. Learn how to use family mealtimes to turn things around with our latest tips and advice![:]
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[:en]New Look, New Features, New Dinner Inspiration![:]
[:en]Improvements to The Family Dinner Project website will help families easily find the food, fun and conversation inspiration they need for meaningful meals.[:]
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Why You Should Fool Around at Dinner
[:en] When a month starts with a whole day dedicated to fooling people, it feels like a good time to talk about the importance of having fun, especially at family dinner. Most of us probably have childhood (or even adulthood!) memories of being told “Stop fooling around!” or “Don’t play with your food!” at the…
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Using Family Dinner to Develop Grit
[:en] Ask most parents and educators these days what qualities they’re interested in helping kids to develop, and many of them will place “grit” somewhere in the top five. “Grit” has become a common shorthand for a whole list of positive character attributes and soft skills that can help kids (and adults) ultimately become more…
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Building Healthy Relationships at the Table
[:en]Get our top tips for using the family dinner table as an opportunity to teach kids of all ages, especially teens and tweens, about healthy relationships.[:]