20 Dinnertime Questions to Help your Child Develop Resilience  - Fussy Eating Solutions
                     20 Dinnertime Questions to Help 
your Child Develop Resilience
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Recently I wrote about how to reap the benefits of 
family dinners for Kiddipedia, using 2 secret 
ingredients. Family dinners have long been studied for 
their benefits on children’s overall health. So when 
scientists told us that family dinners are the perfect 
setting for raising resilient children, I thought this is the 
yummy cherry on the cake we all needed!
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What’s resilience anyway?
Now we hear about resilience and how important it is, all the time, yet 
we hardly understand what it is.
It is defined as “the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties”, it is 
associated with longevity, lower rates of depression, and greater 
satisfaction with life! So who wouldn’t like this for their children?
Dinnertime discussions
M. Duke, a psychologist at Emory University showed that family dinners 
contribute to grounding conversations where children learn about their 
families. The research concluded that the more children know about their 
family the better they do when they face challenges. Here are the 20 
questions that were used in the research. You can use them to build 
conversations at dinner so that one day your children will know the 
answers.  
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• Where do you come from? Do you know how your parents met?
• Do you know where your mother grew up?
• Do you know where your father grew up?
• Do you know where some of your grandparents grew up?
• Do you know where some of your grandparents met?
• Do you know where your parents were married?
• Do you know what went on when you were being born?
• Do you know the source of your name?
• Do you know some things about what happened when your brothers or 
sisters were being born?
• Do you know which person in your family you look most like?
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• Do you know which person in the family you act most like?
• Do you know some of the illnesses & injuries your parents experienced 
when younger?
• Do you know some of the lessons that your parents learned from good or 
bad experiences?
• Do you know some things that happened to your mum or dad when they 
were in school?
• Do you know the national background of your family (such as German, 
Russian, etc.)?
• Do you know some of the jobs that your parents had when they were 
young?
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• Do you know some awards that your parents received when they were 
young?
• Do you know the names of the schools that your mum went to?
• Do you know the names of the schools that your dad went to?
• Do you know about a relative whose face “froze” in a grumpy position 
because he or she did not smile enough?
It is not surprising that raising resilient children is associated with grounding 
them in who they are and where they come from. Now that you know that 
dinnertime can help you raise resilient children, what’s stopping you?
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About Us
Issues arising around eating are numerous 
and may trigger unwarranted stress. 
Difficulties with fussy eating, confusion 
around nutrition, demonisation of food and 
goal settings on size and health, can further 
impair parents' ability to know what to do 
and how to do it. Fussy Eater Solutions' 
philosophy is to be inclusive of your eating 
culture, personal beliefs, and financial 
situation. We work together, either through 
workshops or individual appointments, to 
help children find pleasure, confidence, and 
mindfulness in eating. 
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Australia
0421 843 038
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