How to Get Your Teen to Eat Breakfast - Teenagers & Nutrition Articles & Reports

How to Get Your Teen to Eat Breakfast
Denise Witmer
Parenting of Adolescents, About, Inc.

We all know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, yet many parents allow their teens to skip it. ItÌs understandable. It can be hard enough to get your teen up, ready and to school while you need to go off to work on time without adding more to do in your morning routine. But having breakfast, even if it is a quick one, is important enough a health issue to make it a pertinent part of your familyÌs routine. Here are some tips on how to get your teen to the breakfast table:

Talk with your teen and set your expectations. Although this talk doesnÌt need to be with just your teen - it can be at a family meeting - be sure that he/she knows why you feel strongly that breakfast is a key meal.

Share reasons that fit into your teenÌs life, like those found at this article on the Mr. Breakfast site: ÏA Harvard University/Massachusetts General Hospital study of children in Philadelphia and Baltimore schools discovered that students who usually ate school breakfast had improved math grades, reduced hyperactivity, decreased absence and tardy rates, and ...