[ABC] DINNER TIME: THE DINNER BELL

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DINNER TIME: THE DINNER BELL

Family Dinners Matter for Kids

DIANE SAWYER (ABC NEWS)(OC): Finally tonight, as you sit down to dinner, something to think about.  There's new research from [1]the prestigious Columbia University showing that [2]putting the family back in family dinner can [3]make all the difference in the success of a child.  ABC's Dan Harris explains.

DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS)(VO): [4]The tidy tableau of family dinner on "Leave It to Beaver," [5]mom in pearls, [6]dad in a tie, gathering for a calm, orderly meal, now feels, for many of us, [7]hopelessly unattainable.

BARBARA BILLINGSLEY ("LEAVE IT TO BEAVER"): Beaver?  Anything happen in school today?

DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS)(VO): In the 1950s, most families ate together five to seven nights a week.  These days, with both parents working and [8]the kids up to their ears in extracurriculars, it's more like one or two nights a week.  But today's new study says family should [9]make dinner together a priority.

DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS)(VO): Researchers found teenagers who don't sit down to frequent family dinners are four times more likely to use tobacco, twice as likely to drink alcohol and two and a half times as likely to [10]smoke pot.  Tonight, Dan Gilbert is cooking dinner with his wife and three children.

DAN GILBERT (FATHER): It's our most important time of day for communicating.

ALAN ARKIN ("LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE"): What's that?  Chicken?  Every night it's (CENSORED BY NETWORK) chicken.  Holy, God Almighty.

DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS)(VO): But as made clear in movies like "Little Miss Sunshine," family dinner is not always easy.

DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS)(OC): Parenting experts have some simple tips for [11]reclaiming family dinner.  Step number one - turn off the television.  Two?  Get the children to help plan and cook the meal.  And three, to get the conversation started, have everybody at the dinner list the best and worst things that happened to them today.

DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS)(VO): Times have definitely changed since the Cleavers, but whether a family today means one parent, two parents, same sex parents or grandparents, there is still something simple and magical about sitting face to face and sharing dinner.

TONY DOW ("LEAVE IT TO BEAVER"): Thanks for the nice supper, mom.

DAN HARRIS (ABC NEWS) (VO): Dan Harris, ABC News, New York.

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[1] 명문 컬럼비아 대학교

[2] 저녁 식사가 가족 모임 식사가 되도록 하는 것

[3] 큰 영향을 미치다

[4] 깔끔한 차림의 가족 식사 장면

[5] 진주 목걸이를 한 엄마

[6] 넥타이를 맨 아빠

[7] 이루어질 희망이 없는

[8] 아이들은 과외 활동으로 스케줄이 꽉 차 있고

[9] 가족이 함께 하는 식사를 최우선으로 해야

[10] 대마초

[11] 가족 저녁 식사를 되살리기