The Family Dinner Table: Implications for Children's Health and Wellbeing

2008 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
Family Dinner ◽  
Dinner Table ◽  
The Family

Indicators and Dynamics of Formation A Healthy Lifestyle for Junior High School Students

2020 ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
Yeng Chen Mong
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Family ◽  
Educational Potential ◽  
The Way

In the context of deep social and economic transformations in the country, the contradiction between the growing need of the society for active and healthy people and the catastrophic deterioration of children’s health becomes more acute. Complex studies show that the chronic pathology of schoolchildren is at an extremely high level. Against the backdrop of social insecurity, the problem of alcoholization and drug addiction of children and adolescents is growing, which poses a threat of moral decay to young people. Children’s health is affected by a number of negative factors: a decline in the standard of living in the country as a whole, a widespread deterioration of the environmental situation, and negative changes in the financial situation and the educational potential of the family. Unfortunately, the share of guilt for the current situation today is assigned to the school, which does not meet the modern requirements of hygiene and natural sciences of age physiology, causes disruption of adaptation, chronic fatigue of children and provokes the growth of diseases. Educational potential of school is considerably reduced: “...educational practice stays in a condition of influence on it of casual reference points, elements of positive, and even more negative, influences and uncontrollability”. In these conditions, the problem of maintaining health and education for a healthy lifestyle in schoolchildren is of particular interest to researchers. In the process of upbringing of children of primary school age the role of significant others - teachers and parents - is great. However, for the effectiveness of education for a healthy lifestyle is not enough readiness of the teacher, as the categories of lifestyle, lifestyle is largely associated with the family, with the way of life, with traditions, with the way of life of parents. Parents act as a role model for younger students, so in the process of upbringing important factors are personal, purely individual characteristics of parents, which include health status, physical culture, and attitude to health, culture of communication, ethical culture and experience of a healthy lifestyle.

scholarly journals The impact of the low-income housing tax credit on children's health and wellbeing in Georgia

2018 ◽  
Vol 93 ◽  
pp. 390-396
Author(s):  
Katie A. Ports ◽  
Whitney L. Rostad ◽  
Feijun Luo ◽  
Michelle Putnam ◽  
Elizabeth Zurick
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Children's Health ◽  
Children’S Health ◽  
Tax Credit ◽  
Health And Wellbeing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Low Income Housing

Regulatory talk and politeness at the family dinner table

Pragmatics ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 171-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Åsa Brumark
Keyword(s):  
Family Structure ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Activity Regulation ◽  
Intercultural Studies ◽  
Family Dinner ◽  
Dinner Table ◽  
The Family ◽  
Main Activity ◽  
Families With Children ◽  
The Impact

This study examined the use of regulatory talk at dinnertime in twenty Swedish families with children between the ages of four and seventeen years. The aim of the study was to explore activity regulation in the light of contextual factors, such as the age of the participating children, the number of participants and the different kinds of conversational contexts. Regulatory talk extracted from twenty videotaped dinner conversations was transcribed, coded and analysed within the framework of theories about the impact of context on control acts, indirect speech and politeness. Regulatory utterances, about 7 % of all utterances produced by all family members, were mostly formulated as direct requests and about 15 % of them were mitigated, softening the impact of coerciveness. Indirect regulators occurred, however, in nearly one half of the cases whereas hints were rather uncommon. Age of the children, as well as activity and conversational context had an obvious impact on the way regulatory utterances were performed. Most instrumental regulators (related to the dinner routine) were direct (somewhat more than 60 %) and most non-instrumental regulators were indirect (nearly 60 %). Furthermore, the intended goal i.e. what action was required from the addressee seemed to affect the use of regulators: Regulation at the dinner table mostly concerned nonverbal actions and requests for objects and was related to the main activity. Compared with the American and Israeli groups in Blum-Kulka’s study (1997), the Swedish parents together tended to be more indirect but less mitigating. However, in instrumental contexts i.e. when regulating routine actions relating to the meal, most parental regulators were direct (60 %) whereas about 75 % of the utterances were indirect in non-instrumental contexts. A comparison of these findings with the data from Blum-Kulka (1997) and with other similar intercultural studies leads to the conclusion that situational factors, such as family structure, conversational genres and communicative goals, might have more impact on regulatory talk than socio-cultural background.

Emotions Are Contagious

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sigal Barsade ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Facial Expressions ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Body Language ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Family Dinner ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Dinner Table ◽  
The Family ◽  
Improved Performance ◽  
Tone Of Voice

You're at the family dinner table. Your spouse worries that a friend's business is struggling. Then your son complains about his math homework and your inability to help, and your daughter asks when she will see her friends again. As the meal progresses, you can feel everyone becoming more and more anxious. Emotions are contagious. We automatically mimic each other's facial expressions, body language, and tone of voice. Next, we actually feel the emotions we mimicked and begin to act on them. Without our realizing what's happening, feelings can escalate, as we “catch” them from other people, who catch them back from us, in an increasing spiral. While emotions spread more easily in person, they also get transmitted through social media, phone calls, emails, and video chats. In fact, negative emotions related to isolation may make us even more susceptible. Luckily, knowledge is a form of inoculation. Just being aware of emotional contagion can reduce its negative effects. And positive emotions transfer just as easily as negative ones. The spread of positive emotions leads to greater cooperation, less conflict, and improved performance.

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