This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.  ... parents do you long for that often elusive family dinner and feel pangs of guilt when it doesn't come together due to conflicting schedules long day for the op this ... sports practices and public demands ... well maybe the answer is to stop focusing on dinner here to tell us about the breakfast and champion families is WSJ reporter Sarah Nassauer ... said I think the much for being with that ... so first off tell us about the guilt inducing ... at that point a family dinner together as nutmeg at achievers a narrow lot of that they're a lot of time and really this message has been absorbed by a ... researchers the family advocacy organizations parents that he did not have family dinner your kids are not getting into Harvard oh my gosh ... your teenagers long run I will write and read the whole thing is is going to fall apart ... so obviously they're a lot of families they can to that end in the line to working families people get home lay it to have different schedules ... my concern on the earlier my husband and I later we don't do that it does cause me some guilt but now there are different ways ... yes I mean if you dig into some of its research and their son you survive scam research the picks apart ... aam Dead cars in effect these free dinner and a outcomes for children in a slightly different way that shows ... perhaps it's not about them you'll it's about the types of families apparent has a ... happy time together in a regularity no screening traditions around that type of what a ... bet that also plays a big role ... so for this we talked a lot of them is that focusing in on breakfast and sat ... with the one meal when everyone is in the house yet such is the time in the morning to sit down and have quality family time is a little rushed it's very rushed and that's the tricky knows the family is that too often the people that just are morning people that feel more refreshed in the morning the hammer energy to have some ... real conversation with pecans and tell stories about childhood whether literally just we seen in ten minutes for they ... talked themselves come from the trucks around the house to get everything done and said have a coffee with a kid I left I could just about the family time and not necessarily the meal for instance she getting together every Saturday afternoon injuring an activity could that have the same beneficial to ... the family associations I said yes definitely but we as we on now for chic humans have gotten together over food as an enjoyable thing to do for a long time since I've been set of ... instinctual natural about the food part of the right ... people and there's a component of the studies that deal with that the city their interesting that the families that sit to get a meal together have now is trying to teach people to teach kids how to eat better seen beauty ... well that's how can so that the eating part is pretty key over meals right now Apple has been missing me I can
As fewer people have time for dinner, families are making breakfast the new bonding meal. WSJ's Sarah Nassauer and Tanya Rivero discuss on Lunch Break. Photo: iStock/monkeybusinessimages