Family-Style Dining

Family-style dining means that you and your family sit down together at your table for a meal.

Why family-style dining?

Children who eat most of their meals with their families:

• Do better in school
• Learn social skills such as talking to others and sharing
• Learn problem solving
• Are closer to their families
• Are less affected by negative peer influence
• Learn manners by watching and listening to family members
• Are less likely to become involved in drugs and alcohol
• Eat healthier
• Tend to have lower levels of stress
• Develop self-help skills, independence and confidence

Family-style dining is a time for families to be together, to talk, laugh and share.