TABLE-TALKS! HOW SHARED MEALS CAN STRENGTHEN BONDS?

  • In this busy world filled with screens, the simple act of sitting down for a meal as a family is becoming rare.

  • Research shows table talks during meals, becomes powerful moments of connection, communication, and care that help to shape a child’s emotional, cognitive and social well-being.

  • Regular meal times offer a daily dose of stability.

  • Chatting at the table boosts vocabulary, critical thinking and communicational skills in children. Thereby their daily dose of depression and anxiety is reduced.

  • The food doesn’t have to be fancy! What matters is gathering and sense of sharing your own thoughts.

Tell do you practice this kind of act in your homes?

List out other emotional and cognitive well-being in table talks.

Thank You!

MBH/PS

Very good concept of having table talks!