Eat Dinner with Your Kids on Sept. 28

Want to know a good way to reduce your kids' chances of using drugs? Eat dinner with them frequently.

Family Day, a Day to Eat Dinner with Your Children, is Monday, Sept. 28. It's a nationwide movement sponsored by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University, and encourages parents to keep engaged with their children -- and substance free -- by having frequent dinners where the whole family eats with each other.

Here's what the Marshall County Anti-Drug Coalition and the Marshall County Family Resource Network have to say about the subject.

But don't take our word for it. It's truly a national campaign.

The Los Angeles Times says that teenagers who have frequent family dinners are much less likely to drink and use drugs.

Or, as the East Bay Times of Rhode Island points out: "With the 9-to-5, single-income household a thing of the past for many households, families are rushing around more than ever and scheduling a plethora of after-school programs for their kids. The family dinner hour -- the time of day when you share details about school or the office, air grievances or just shoot the breeze -- has been relegated to the back burner."