TED Outline Format
Oral Content
Topic: Family Dinner
Purpose: To encourage the return to the family dinner and promote the benefits of traditional family dining
Thesis Statement: This shift has detrimental effects on the nuclear family and individuals as it disrupts the way families bond and the way children grow and develop in a social setting.
Introduction
Attention Strategy/
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Body
- More people are becoming unhappy with this shift
- Discuss step mother, mom and people who grew up with traditional family dining
- Family is a social institution
- Children learn language and social skills through family dinner
- Research shows that children who eat dinner regularly with their families are more successful in school
- Children learn language and social skills through family dinner
- Children gain sense of structure
- Discuss dinner being a routine and how necessary and comforting that structure is
- Family dinner gives people a sense of community
- Smallest example of a community
Family dinners can help you bond with members of your family but also beyond
These dinners can bring forth a feeling of support
Conclusion
Concluding Remark –I encourage you all to make the return to traditional family dining. It may not always be easy but the benefits are worth the effort.