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Marrowbone (2017)

Directed by Sergio G. Sánchez

Compared with 6th graders who often ate dinner with their parents, those who rarely did so were far more more likely to display anxiety and depression, delinquency and substance use, and poor school grades, even after many other aspects of parenting were controlled. In this study, frequent family mealtimes also protected low-socioeconomic status youths from delinquency and substance use and from classroom learning problems. (Based on Luthar & Latendresse, 2005b)  

Taken from Infants, Children, and Adolescents by Laura E. Berk, pg. 73, Figure 2.7

It is no wonder why family mealtimes benefit children. It is a designated set time in which, under normal circumstances, children are engaged and tuned into their families. Just like work time takes away from family bonding, schooling and technology can take away from bonding at family meals as well. It is one of the few times that you are not expected to do much other than satiate hunger.

Under cut: Personal Commentary

Section of proposed Anacostia river waterfront, in D.C. (Nir Buras) I grew up in Washington, D.C., and probably gained my affection for classical architecture from its grand public spaces. I went off to college and upon my return found a striking new waterfront along the Potomac River, parallel to M Street and the C&O Canal, in Georgetown. It was exciting not because of but in spite of its…

Two rotten eggs and a peach

Rendering of preferable proposal for apartment complex on east bank of Providence River. (Nelson) The I-195 District Redevelopment Commission, at its Sept. 20 meeting, looked at three proposals for mixed-use apartment complexes on former highway land east of the Providence River. One proposal exceeds the other two in appearance. That should be the primary basis upon which the commission makes its…

A memorial to the agrafe

The Bowery Savings Bank, 130 Broadway. McKim, Mead & White, 1895. Each of the Corinthian columns and pilasters has an “astragal” moulding below its capital, just above the fluted portions of their shafts. As an example of “agrafe,” this astragal moulding was extended along the the faces of the adjacent walls, forming the bottom edge of a “sub frieze” at the tops of those walls; within that…