It is often said that having a meal together is not necessary in modern society because family members cannot meet up together easily due to their busy individual works. However, I believe that family should have a meal together for main two reasons: children can learn the value of responsibility and parents are able to prevent their children from being spoiled.
To begin with, children can get the sense of values that needed to survive in the modern society thorough family’s meal time. This is because by preparing for foods and doing house chores related to their meal with other family members, they are able to learn how to cooperate with others and fulfill a role that are expected for them to do. Thus, through these processes, they can understand the importance of responsibility and interpersonal skills, which is the key to success.
According to the Ministry of the Education of Korea in 2008, there were differences between students who have family meal time and those who don’t have. The former group showed the good characteristics such as consideration, responsibility, taking care of other people in comparison to the latter group.
This implies that spending time with their family on eating meals plays significant role in forming positive qualities to children.
In addition, having a meal time together deters children from indulging into dangerous situation and committing a crime
It is common that many parents have been busy to make a living by working hard at their company and could not spend their time on having a conversation with their children. Thus, they don’t have in-depth knowledge about their children’s thinking way and what they really want to do, not realizing their children might have been put into juvenile delinquency.
For example, 12-year-old-boy hit some old person by his baseball bat without any reason. He has been exposed to many violent movies and just emulated the action towards his neighbor in order to alleviate his stress that stem from academic performance and the relationship with his classmates. If the parents had knew his concerns with spending time together often, they could have prevented this horrible crime.
In brief, having a meal with family members together has a great influence on their children’s development. Children can achieve the valuable traits as well as saving them from the temptation of crime. All in all, even though the society drive people not to think other things except for work due to the fast pace, we need some time to reflect our family’s position. |