PARENT-CHILD COMMUNICATION As tweens turn into teens, parents can have an increasingly hard time getting messages across. A new study suggests one way for parents to keep up communication: Sit down together for dinner. The results show that while parent-child communication generally declines as kids go through middle school, eating meals together can help protect against this conversation dip. Kids who frequently are dinner with their parents when they were in sixth grade saw less of a change in communication with their folks over three and a half years than kids who rarely or never ate dinner with their parents in sixth grade. The results suggest family dinners inn a child’s early adolesence can set the stage for long-lasting communication. The benefical efferct of family dinners on parent-child communication is real. However, the researchers can’t distinguish whether the childrent kept up goof communication because they ate family meals together, or they ate meals together because they already got along well with their parents in sixth grade. Family studies can help better charity the reasons. (Adapted from: Family Dinners Increase Parent-Teen Communication) 41. The problems in communication between parents and children arise when the children: A. enter high school B. turn twelve C. start grade seven D. go through middle school year 42. As kids go through secondary school, they find it hard to A. communicate B. share their feelings C. get the text across their place, D.talk to their parents. 43. According to the passage, kids ate dinner with their parents in sixth grade. A. talk to their parents the same way over years later. B. see their folks more often. C. rarely have dinner with their parents the next few years. D. find it hard to talk to their parents later. 44. It is suggested that long-lasting communication is A. set in early teens. B. early in life. C. resulted from early dinner. D.the cause of family dinner. 45. What needs further research to clarify? A. The reason families have dinner together B. The bond that hold families together C. The talk that families share in meals D. The reason for lasting family communication