The next time your kid insists on having meal in his room, make him come to the dining table, for a study has revealed that children who eat together with their parents daily are likely to do better in school exams.
Researchers in Britain have discovered strong links between how well children get on with their parents and their success at school -- in fact, such "togetherness" is found to be an important factor in the upbringing of kids.
"There is a strong relationship between regularity of having a family evening meal and GCSE (10th std) attainment," leading British newspaper 'The Times' quoted the researchers as saying.
Their study is based on an analysis of 20,000 students across Britain. Half of those who nearly always have a family evening meal attained eight or more good GCSEs as compared to less than a third of those who seldom do, it revealed.
In addition, the government-backed study found family rules on whether kids were allowed out on school nights were also important indicators of their academic success.
One in ten children whose parents "sometimes" or "never" set night curfews dropped out of education, training and work completely after the age of 16, the results of the study showed.
"The majority of parents know where their children are in the evening and these children tend to have better later outcomes," the researchers said.
They also found teenagers were more likely to drop out of school at 16 if they got on badly with parents. "Rates of remaining in full-time education are 20 per cent higher for those whose parents reported getting on either fairly well or very well with their child."
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