The Magic Of The Family Meal Analysis

What makes a family whole? Is it the people in it, tradition, or love? Today many people including Nancy Gibbs would say an essential part of family life is the dinner table in her article “The Magic of the Family Meal” she shows us that having dinner together is perhaps more important than people would think. After all spending time together as a family and expressing love in the form of food or conversation is how a family’s ties bond and agreement or discussion occurs.
In her article Ms. Gibbs begins by both having us think of a stereotypical family dinner that goes on to say that simply because we eat together does not mean we eat healthy and that even if dinner is a daily occurrence that an intimate moment will most likely happen when
Today everything and everyone has a very go, go, go mentality the faster something can get done the better it is, yet is that the best? Children even the smart ones although they seem constantly full of energy want to slow down more than the adults sometimes. A child to grow needs love, stability, and, happiness and aren’t these things shown in a family meal? A meal together shows a child that they have something that occurs daily to look forward to no matter if the rest of their day is fast paced and shows the love and happiness of a the family to the child and so they give that back in return. A child though physically tough can easily break mentally and a family meal shows a child that there is nothing to be afraid of that no matter what mistakes they made that day dinner would always occur and the stability, happiness, and love would all be reassured. In my experience I never really had family meals until I was older and so I know that my life lacked stability I changed schools often I had no other family besides my immediate one and life was ever changing and personally I never liked that. It was something I craved was one simple act of