No Way For A Kid To Start The Day

A big deal is made these days of whether families regularly eat dinner together, as if this will settle the fate of the nation’s children. The findings of a Weekly Reader poll of kids age 5-18 indicate that more attention should be paid to the first meal of the day. The problem isn’t that youngsters are breakfasting without the rest of the nuclear family in rapt attendance. Rather, it’s that many of them aren’t eating breakfast at all.