Free Family Film Night

The Port Chester Cares Community Coalition and the Port Chester Football and Cheerleading Booster Club are holding the Third Annual Free Family Film Night on Friday, Sept. 23 in celebration of this year’s family day. 

Playing at the show: “The Lorax.”  Last year, 250 people attended the show at Port Chester High School’s Ryan Stadium. 

The Coalition encourages all families to bring a picnic dinner to eat together as a family under the stars and enjoy a film together. Presented at the show will be the ‘I Have What It Takes’ award, going to one outstanding senior from each of the fall athletic teams and marching band.

The event will be celebrating CASA’s Family Day, a day to eat dinner with your family. Family dinners are the perfect time to talk to your kids and listen to what their day-to-day entails.  According to the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA), “The more often kids eat dinner with their families, the less likely they are to smoke, drink or use drugs.”  CASA also reports that 84% of teens prefer to have dinner with their families than to eat alone.  “The parental engagement fostered at the dinner table can be a simple, effective tool to help prevent substance abuse in kids (CASA).”

      Frequent family dining, defined as 5 or more dinners together per week, is associated with lower rates of teen smoking, drinking, illicit drug use and prescription drug abuse.  Children who eat dinner with their family 5 or more times per week are, more likely to get As and Bs in school, more likely to think their parents are proud of them and more than 50% less likely to drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes or smoke marijuana.