There has been a heap of attention in the media lately about a lot of families not eating dinner together anymore. So it's got me wondering if it's just another "thing" for them to write about or if it's true.
We have dinner together every night at the dinner table or if we get takeaway we might have a "picnic" on the lounge room floor. For us, it's the one time of the day we all get to hang out and just relax and have a chat and we love it. For a year though we had our own shop and DH would work until 8pm at night, so most nights DH would just eat on his own we he got home and I hated it.
So I'm curious...how does it work in your household?
Even when i was really sick last month, i dragged myself out of bed for a little while to eat with DH and DD.
other meals not so much due to work/DD's naps etc - but we always eat dinner together - and then spend at least an hour chilling out together afterwards
Our house is open planned so we don't have room for a dining table so we sit on the couch and DD sits on the floor infront of us eating her dinner. When we move i want a bigger house so we can have a dining area and eat as a family.
Before Moo came along we always ate in front of the TV, I think we still did until he became old enough for 'dinner' So now we all eat dinner at the table together. My hubby is a shiftworker though so when he is on shift it's just me and my boy.
Sorry off topic but funny story - DH and I went away for a couple of nights last week for my birthday. Instead of taking the opportunity to go OUT for dinner for once...we got gourmet pizza and watched movies back at our hotel room it was just such a treat to not eat at a table with a toddler!
We are always together at dinner time, but don't always eat at the same time simply because the kids eat so early. Our kids eat tea at 5.30 as both are in bed before 7pm. We are lucky as DH is home at 4pm, so we most times get dinner ready but sit down and feed/help the boys with their dinner and then have ours after. Or depending on what it is we will eat at the same time.
The boys have their own little table and chairs they sit at, that's fine with us. We are crammed in a small house and only one side of the dining table can be accessed.
As they get older we will ask that everyone sits at the table when we all eat at the same time.
No, my kids eat at 5pm. DD goes to bed at 6:30pm and the boys at 7:30pm. My DH is never home before 7pm. He also works a Saturday and the shop closes at 6pm, even on a Saturday..I hate Melbourne CBD trading hours! If I know for sure he will not be home for dinner at all, which is most Friday nights, I eat with them then.
We have one night where it's possible and that is Sunday. We try if we can drag the kids out a little and us eat earlier
We try but if dh is late the kids eat first. I will sit with them though, as they are so young and we talk about the day. Last year life was crazy and we always ate later but we noticed they weren't eating.
We all eat together but prob half the time at the table and half in the lounge, usually cos my sewing is taking up the kitchen table. I really need to make more effort to eat at the table as I find DD eats better if she is not distracted by the tv and can actually see us eating.
When it was just DD and I here we would sit on the couch and eat with her little table - we would usually just share one plate of dinner too!
Now that DF has moved in we try to sit at the table most nights - my problem is that I am addicted to home and away lol and we don't have a fancy recordable TV - so if dinner is late for some reason we sit on the couch still
If we are all home at the same time we eat together, but sometimes I am working at night so then obviously I eat later. We don't have a dining table though only a coffee table so DS eats at that because he fits, and we sit beside him and balance our plates on our knees. Reality of our situation, but it seems to work ok.
We don't really eat much together because DH is a shift worker. I do try and get us at the table together when possible and DD even knows we all have our 'own' places at the table but really its more us sitting around the coffee table in the lounge room.
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So now we all eat dinner at the table together. My hubby is a shiftworker though so when he is on shift it's just me and my boy.
it was just such a treat to not eat at a table with a toddler!
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