Also, I'm kicking off a really wonderful
project for a client (The Family Dinner Project) today; come join the #familydinnerforward Twitter chat at noo
project for a client (The
Family Dinner Project) today; come join the #familydinnerforward Twitter chat at noo
Project) today; come join the #familydinnerforward Twitter chat
at noon EST..
Teens who have fewer than three
family dinners a week are 3.5 times more likely to have abused prescription drugs and to have used illegal drugs other than marijuana, three times more likely to have used marijuana, more than 2.5 times more likely to have smoked cigarettes, and 1.5 times more likely to have tried alcohol, according to the CASA report «While substance abuse can strike any
family, regardless of ethnicity, affluence, age, or gender, the parental engagement fostered
at the
dinner table can be a simple, effective tool to help prevent [it],» says Elizabeth Planet, one of the report's researchers, and the centers vice president and director of special
projects.