- Eating together provides time that kids can count on spending with their parents.
- Kids who share at least four meals with their families do better on achievement tests than those who eat three or fewer meals with their families.
- Kids' thinking skills and linguistic development improve. (This may be due to the longer conversations that tend to take place during family meals.)
- Family meals contribute to a child's healthy development even more than play or story time.
- Teens that eat more meals with their families are less likely to be depressed.
- Teenagers who share more family meals are less likely to take drugs.
- Eating more meals together also results in teens' being more motivated to learn.
- Teens who share more family meals experience better relationships with their families and friends.
- Kids who are in the habit of eating with their families eat more vegetables.
- Kids who share family meals drink less soda.
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