Dinner time practices

Wwildman

Wwildman

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So how many of you actually sit down at a table with their family say grace and eat dinner and discuss your day or ask the kid or wife what their day was like ?

Or do you grab a plate of food and sit and watch TV with no conversation with family ?

The other option is just grab fast food and no time for family got to go out and hang with friends ?

Most nights we set down at the table and say grace and have a family dinner with no distractions.
 
Every night my wife and I sit down with our 2 year old, say Grace, and eat dinner without distractions. I don't get to play with friends or hit the shop until after the kid goes to bed at 8.

Occasionally if I have pressing yard work or last minute wrenching before a trip I get a shop pass and don't eat until after my work is done; this is RARE.
 
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When my kids are with me we always sit down, say Grace, and eat. By myself it is usually sit in front of the tv, still say Grace though.

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i sit in my recliner and say "hey when is dinner going to be ready". that is the wife's clue to get up and start cooking. i then ask 3 or 4 more times, each time getting a smart ass remark, usually with a little more "tone" in her voice each time. when the food is ready, the plate is brought to me, with a knife, fork and towel, then we eat. we don't talk while we eat, we were both brought up in the theory of no talking at the table. (and i'm eating, i was also taught not to talk with my mouth full) the only rule i really adhere to is, i will not touch my food until my wife has sat down to eat also.
you have to keep in mind that our kids are grown and out of the house, and the wife and i are together all day long. i know how her day was and she knows how mine was, no need for idle chit-chat. besides, she doesn't care what i have to say anyway.
 
My family used to sit down at the table to eat dinner when I was younger...then the kitchen table became the family computer desk, bill holder, key placer, etc. I would eat in my room, my parents would eat together in the living room and my brother would eat in his room.....kinda sad. I told my wife then when we have kids, WE WILL be eating at the dinner table with no cell phones and no tv. I think thats whats wrong with kids and parents today.
I have seen a few times when going out to eat...there will be a table with a family and they will hold hands and pray before eating. I always love to see that.
 
when i was at home still we all sat as a family and ate no phones or tv on. now me and my roommate eat on the couch unless one of our girlfriends came over then we all eat at the table. when we go out to eat phones stay in the truck.
 
half an half.

We either sit down and eat together or kids sit at the table and the wife and I sit at the bar or in front of the TV.

Sometimes we get REAL CRAZY and all of us set up in the living room and have Disney movie night. WATCH OUT!
 
supper as a family every night no TV or cell and grace before, nobody eats until everybody is sitting down and ready, same rule if we go out to eat, and my daughter has to ask to be excused before she can leave the table, and we discuss the day we had, I think it makes a more cohesive family unit!
 
mbalbritton said:
Sometimes we get REAL CRAZY and all of us set up in the living room and have Disney movie night. WATCH OUT!
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My little sister has to watch every movie that comes on, or show. I have never been more excited for commercials.

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Wife cooks while I am working on the house. Kid gets served, I get called in and we eat in front of the TV. Once this remodel is over, we will be eating at the table. Right now, it is being used as a makeshift workbench for whatever project I am working on at the time.
 
My wife and I sit down for every meal.
I refuse to eat on the run or in a vehicle or at work as I think of it as the only time I actually get to rest.
We usually talk untill she start going on about a co-worker or her job and at that point I go silent and pull out my phone :mad:
You would think after 13 years she would figure that out.
And on sunday we don't lift a finger its church, go eat and followed by walking it off at the Biltmore estate then usually a movie.
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Growing up it was a TV tray while sitting on the couch watching TV.

When the wife and I got married we lived in a house where the kitchen table also served as the laundry folding table, bill collection table, and whatever else we needed. Then once my little girl was born we moved and have sat at the table (all three of us) every night with no TV and no phones. I must say I certainly want to keep this going as I feel it is the only time we all really get to be together and focus on conversation. I know that sounds lame, but I feel like time is slipping by me and I need to stop and look around every now and then before it is all gone.
 
Wwildman are you our new guidance councillor? Just wondering.


How old are you? Just wondering.


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The wife and I eat together as often as possible, which is maybe 3 nights a week, and we usually sit on the couch because our table is like many others, a catch-all for crap as we walk in the door. When we go to my parents it is usually dinner at the table, but we have been known to come in from a project, eat wherever we sit, and go right back out.

Duane
 
My parents were very big into family dinner time, and MANNERS while at it. At table every meal, no TV, radio, anything. Even if phone rang, don't answer it. Nobody starts eating until everybody has their serving, which comes by passing to the left. Napkin in lap. If caught eating w/o napkin in lap, you had to run up to your room, spin 3 times and come back down :D . Payers first. Never TV etc. Always talked about our day... you could not escape having to talk lol.

I HATED it as a kid. Envied my friends that ate in front of TV. They thought we were crazy. Wife grew up w/ everybody eating seperately in front of TV, no talking.

Now - I really appreciate that. We eat together every night. Unfortunately most nights by the time I get home, wife and kids have just started eating. But, yep we talk about our day, ask the kids, etc. No phones, no TV. Nobody leaves until all finished (this is not easy to explain to the almost 3-y/o...)
And.... yes sometimes it is very painful waiting for our sloooooow picky 8 y/o to finish...;) .

And yes, occasional weekend evenings we "get crazy" too and eat a pizza or Chinese food while watching a movie in the living room.
 
I work nightshift. I hate the people I work with and wish they wouldn't talk to me since I don't talk to them.


At home, well, I never eat there. If I do, it's about this time of night/morning, shortly after getting home from work.
 
Well I call in some Chinese food, get the dog all excited asking if he wants to go for a ride (which instantly results in uncontrollable excitement and backflips). Go up the road with my dog and get my food, go back home and watch discovery channel while I eat in my recliner. My dog lays in his bed since he knows not to beg and that he can't have table food. Living alone sucks. Sometimes I order pizza but that guy never wants to hang out, he always seems like he has somewhere else to be??

As a kid we all ate around the table, which is something I will resort back to when it's not just me and the dog. I think it's very important for family structure. If a family doesn't eat together they live more like roommates than family.
 
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