3 Ways Your Stop Your Family from Falling Apart // How to Stop Your Family from Falling Apart, Part 3

<p class="p1">These days way too many families are falling apart. But as it turns out there are 3 very simple things that you can do to stop that from happening. None of them is rocket science. None of them is particularly onerous.</p> <p> </p> <h4><span style="color: #ff9900;">Eat Together</span></h4> <p class="p1">We’ve all had that experience – having a meal with someone takes a relationship to a whole new level. Not quite sure what makes this whole eating together so important to us – but it is. It’s one of the primary ways that we form relationships.</p> <p class="p1">It’s a very special thing. Eating meals together with other people – in almost every culture on the planet – is an incredibly important part of building and strengthening relationships. We kind of already know that – but just stopping to think about it and talk about it – really drives it home doesn’t it?</p> <p class="p1">So why is it then, that we’re seeing declining rates of <span class="s1">families</span> having meals together? In the UK for instance, one in ten families never sits down to an evening meal together. But that same study – which surveyed 3,000 families – revealed that two-thirds of children yearn for a return to the traditional family dinner time. And four out of 10 children have even asked their mother or father to have more evening meals together as a family.</p> <p class="p1">A similar study conducted in New Zealand found that the whilst majority of 15-year-olds – 64.7% – reported that they shared a main meal with their parents around a table several times a week whilst 35.3% – or just over a third – reported that they <span class="s1"><em>didn’t</em></span> have that privilege. The newspaper USA Today had this to say on the whole subject of family dinners:</p> <p class="p2" style="padding-left: 40px;"><em>Family dinners help kids avoid risky behaviours and may even help them in school. But new research shows that the more frequent these dinners, the better the adolescents fare emotionally, says new research published this