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'Family Day -- A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children'

Sept. 28

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[September 25, 2009]  "Family Day -- A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children" is a national movement to inform parents that the parental engagement fostered during frequent family dinners is an effective tool to help keep America's kids substance-free. Family Day reminds parents that "Dinner Makes A Difference!" The date this year is Sept. 28.

RestaurantWhether you're cooking a gourmet meal, ordering food from your favorite take-out place or eating on the go, rest assured that what your kids really want during dinnertime is YOU! Family meals are the perfect time to talk to your kids and to listen to what's on their mind. The more often kids eat dinner with their families, the less likely they are to smoke, drink or use drugs. To learn more, go to www.casafamilyday.org.

Although Family Day is technically Monday, related information is being provided throughout the week by several local restaurants:

  • Pizza Hut is putting fliers on all of their pizza boxes. Also, the first 50 families that eat in at the restaurant will receive a magnetic picture frame that includes information on how to talk to your kids. This will run throughout the week of Sept. 28.

  • Domino's Pizza is putting fliers on all of their pizza boxes. The first 50 customers will also receive a magnetic picture frame.

  • Guzzardo's is putting fliers on all of their pizza boxes. Also, the first 50 families that eat in at the restaurant will receive the picture frame.

  • First Wok will have "conversation starter boxes" on their tables for the week. In the boxes of Chinese food, there will be questions to start conversations with the family, such as: "If you had to live somewhere else in the world, where would you live and why?" If people are interested, they can take the boxes home with them.

Along with these activities, postcards will be sent out to parents of children ages 9-17 in Logan County to highlight the educational campaign "Who is shaping your teen's future? I am, are you?"

[Text from file received from Camille Springer, Logan County community prevention coordinator, Chestnut Health Systems]

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