Five minutes after her husband, Brian, comes through the door each evening around 7, Judith Natelli-McLaughlin calls her three daughters to the table for the family's nightly meal. During dinner, a ringing phone is ignored and no cell phones, iPods or other gadgets are allowed - a considerable feat in this age of distractions.

Family Dinners Are Important 10 reasons why, and 10 shortcuts to help get the family to the table. After-school activities, late workdays, long commutes -- it's no wonder few families eat dinner together. Yet studies show that the family dinner hour is an important part of healthy living.

family togetherness By Jim BurnsHomeWord I'm happy to announce that over the past few years, more and more families are making the intentional effort to have regular, family-mealtimes. Seven Reasons Why It's Important 1) Keeps Kids Out of Trouble Kids who live in families that eat dinner together regularly are less likely to be involved in at risk behaviors.

The Importance of Dinner Time There is an old saying that you are what you eat. Turns out how we eat may be every bit as important for our children. Studies from the University of Minnesota, Harvard, and Rutgers have all shown that the family dinner is not just something that went out with scenes by Norman Rockwell.

Language isn't found in just one part of the brain but rather in separate individual parts that are responsible for different aspects of language. Neurodegentive diseases that target specific areas of the brain affecting language, only have a partial effect on the patients ability to understand and communicate.

Language and the brain Many people assume the physical basis of language lies in the lips, the tongue, or the ear. But deaf and mute people can also possess language fully.

Many seem to associate our vocal tracts and mouths as the organs that produce language. However, how is it that the deaf can use sign language and the blind read braille? The primary organ responsible for language is the brain.

Is technology bringing us closer together or driving us farther apart? "Digital storage space is now 40% more likely to cause family arguments than hogging the landline (do people still have landlines?), with 50% of us admitting to accidentally deleting stuff and 25% losing photos or contacts."

Is technology killing other languages? Some seem to think that the internet is bias against foreign languages (not English) because the "lingua franca" of the computer world is English. With so many people learning English through technology is it worth the extinction of other languages?

The new generation is a technological generation. This new digital age has introduced a new medium for communication, texting. Is texting destroying language or creating a new one?

The new generation is a technological generation. This new digital age has introduced a new medium for communication, texting. Is texting destroying language or creating a new one?