Families should eat together while watching TV

The Atlantic

When he was growing up, Jordan Calhoun says "proper families always ate dinner at a table. Except my real-life family never did. To this day, I don’t take a bite of my food until someone presses play. Eating in front of the TV carries a stigma—antiquated views say it’s unhealthy and is even correlated with laziness and kids eating fewer vegetables. The most enduring assumption might be that TV-watching families don’t talk when the TV is on, but I don’t think that’s true either. Our conversations are just different than they would be at a table: We’re arguing about plot, predicting betrayal, or discussing the real stories behind historical fiction."