Dinners with Daughters
Posted on July 22nd, 2008 – 7:49 AMBy May Chen
It’s started already.
Me: What did you do at school today, Zoe?
Zoe: (Long pause) Nuzzing.
Four years old and already she sounds like a sullen teenager at dinner.
But we shall persevere. Especially with this new research coming out of the U of M today about how adolescent girls who eat regular family meals are much less likely five years out to drink, smoke or use marijuana.
The study didn’t find the same effect for boys though and researchers are at a loss to explain why. Click here for the story.




