Meal Times

Many families today are too busy to find the time to eat together but it is worth remembering that
meal times play an important part in a child’s development.

Meal times are social occasions which provide not only nutritious food for healthy bodies. help to encourage positive attitudes to food but also encourage communication skills and good table manners.

Meal times should be enjoyable times for the whole family and a time when they can sit down together and talk about ‘what happened today’.

The following are some tips which may help to have happy mealtimes for everyone:

Try to eat together at the week-ends if it is not possible because of work commitments to do so during the week. Make the week-end meal times special by suggesting to the children to pick a theme and the menu and they can then help with the preparation.

Make sure that you turn off the TV.

Frances Byatt-Smith RN RHV BA Psychology

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