Prioritizing routine dinners with the family can seem daunting when everyone’s on a different schedule. However, you should make the time to eat out together and bond as a family. Here are a few reasons why.

Why You Should Take Your Family Out for Dinner

1. Promotes Better Relationships

Establishing a family dinner routine can strengthen the ties between everyone. Younger siblings will gain a sense of belonging when participating with adults.

Meals provide a perfect time to share thoughts about the day, future expectations, opinions, and concerns. Eating and conversing with one another also teaches children how to interact with people older than themselves. Children can learn manners, respect, and social skills as they talk to waiters and staff as well as their siblings and parents.

2. Relieves Stress

Parents who work during the day can enjoy an evening where the whole family sits together and connects. Sometimes it’s hard for working parents to feel as though they have enough time to spend with their children.

Everyone has to eat, so rounding the family together offers a perfect opportunity. Also, parents who stay at home with the kids—especially on those stressful days—can enjoy sitting with the family as one and not have to cook or worry about everyone’s whereabouts.

3. Prompts New & Healthy Food Choices

Eating out as a family can expose children to food that they wouldn’t normally choose. Introducing new and healthy foods early on in childhood and displaying that the whole family eats this new delicacy will promote healthy eating habits.

4. Encourages Higher Grades

Studies have shown that family dinners and academic success is linked. In one report, the majority of teenagers who ate dinner with their families five to seven nights a week doubled their chances of earning As and Bs. On the other hand, teenagers who rarely ate with their families were more likely to receive poor grades.

Take the whole family for dinner at Jolene's Market in Honolulu, HI. This food hall features numerous vendors, many of which offer new and healthy dishes that the entire family will love. You can look forward to fresh, delicious seafood, with vendors cooking an array of Asian cuisine. Stop by today to check out their offerings, including lobster rolls, curry, and crab. Take a look at their menu online or call (808) 540-1000 to learn more about this family-owned establishment.