Importance of family mealtime

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Hi Kitos Sir, will you please evaluate this for me?

b]It is important for families to regularly eat their meals together. Do you agree or disagree? Explain your answer with reasons and examples.
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With the increasing pace of life and activities, it is hard to manage time for the work and family. While performing duties, sometimes, family is neglected. However, if working people organize themselves for their job and home, this dilemma can be solved. From my perspective, family mealtime provides an opportunity for making the family relations strong. Eating together has following main benefits;
To begin with, the daily ritual of eating together at dinner table is considered the most important way to strengthen the family ties. Despite the busy and stressful life, those families, who make time for the eating together, are deeply connected with each other. It helps to keep the connection lines open through the teens and adolescents. Parents can make them learn about their culture and traditions.For example, my mother is a working woman, but she knows that it is equally important for her to spend mealtime with her family to make strong connection with her children. Also it helps her to keep the family traditions alive among her children by telling about them at dinner table.
Moreover, eating together helps to improve the habits of the growing children. For parents, it is vital to have a dinner with family. At the dinner table, apart from eating, parents may notice many changes in their children, some of them desirable and most of them not. Deviant eating habits are slowly being corrected, table manners are being introduced.Furthermore, those teens who eat their meals with their family are more likely to avoid bad habits like cigarettes, alcohol and use of illicit drugs.

Last but not least, having meal together enhances school performance of the children. It has been observed that children who have their meals with their parents get good grades in school and have a more strong character. At the mealtime, working parents can conversate with their children about their studies, games for example baseball or basketball or other issues.Similarly, children can air out their sentiments. Here the key is, mealtime gives them a chance to get involved in a shared conversation and help them remove their weaknesses in their academic career.
To conclude, I totally agree that eating meals together with family helps people to firm their family bonds, improving child's habits or enhancing academic performance of the children.

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