3 Tricks for Fitting Family Dinner Into Your Busy Schedule

March 31, 2014

Studies show that family meals help improve school performance and can foster healthy child development. Having dinner as a family promotes confidence, reinforces good eating habits and manners, and is the best way to improve communication with your children. But with busy (and often conflicting) schedules, getting everyone to the dinner table at the same time isn’t always easy. Try these simple tricks…

Vicki Clinebell majored in journalism at the University of Colorado and headed to an advertising agency before beginning a long career in broadcasting, spanning production and copywriting to Sales and Management for an ABC affiliate station.

Her decision to switch gears to pursue a career in writing fulfilled a lifelong ambition. She started as a blogger for a diverse group of businesses, and now writes for a number of digital publications for companies stationed in her hometown in the Rocky Mountains, and provides advertising copy and media buys for national and regional clients. She finds the research as intersting as the writing—she loves learning about subjects as diverse as construction scaffolding, child safety seats, and the newest trends in beauty and fashion.