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Old 01-06-2014, 04:10 AM
 
Location: Tennessee
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Do you think it is important to have dinner at the dinner table all the time or is it ok to sit down in front of the TV and have your meal? What do you do?
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Old 01-06-2014, 06:02 AM
 
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We believe in the importance of family dinner. We sit at the dining table.

There are other times for family movie night. Dinner isn't one of them.
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Old 01-06-2014, 06:45 AM
 
Location: Finland
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I do think its important to sit at the table for dinner as a family but must admit we don't always do it. Sometimes the toddler eats dinner earlier so then me and OH eat our dinner in front of the telly later but if we all eat at the same time then we eat together.
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Old 01-06-2014, 06:48 AM
 
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It really depends, but, most of the time, the TV is off during dinner, and family members are forced to converse with each other, at the table.

However, last night, with the football playoffs, there would have been a mutiny.
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Old 01-06-2014, 07:10 AM
 
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It really depends, but, most of the time, the TV is off during dinner, and family members are forced to converse with each other, at the table.

However, last night, with the football playoffs, there would have been a mutiny.
If there is a big game on (like playoffs) sometimes we turn on the tv but we still eat at the table and never in front of the tv. I think that it's important for us to eat together without the tv on most of the time but we're not dogmatic about it.

On regular nights when there is no big game on we eat together, without tv.
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Old 01-06-2014, 07:11 AM
 
Location: Hillsborough
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We have a rule that food and drinks (except water) must stay in the kitchen/dining room. We never eat in front of the TV (unless something like popcorn during a movie).

We turn off TV/devices for dinner, though we do often have devices (iPads) at breakfast. I view it as the modern equivalent of the morning paper.
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Old 01-06-2014, 07:21 AM
 
Location: southwestern PA
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TV is off during almost ALL meals.
We eat in the kitchen or the dining room.

There are exceptions... like if we have people over to watch our team in the Stanley Cup playoffs, or the Super Bowl.
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Old 01-06-2014, 07:39 AM
 
Location: Central, NJ
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Most nights we are at the table for dinner and the tv is always off if we are at the table. Many times on Sunday we eat in the living room and watch America's Funniest Videos together. Sometimes when we order a pizza my son and husband have a 'party' and eat theirs while they play with the train table.
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Old 01-06-2014, 07:56 AM
 
Location: Long Neck,De
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Most of the time it is just wife and myself sitting in the living room. Company we will eat at the table,of course.
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Old 01-06-2014, 08:09 AM
 
Location: Tennessee
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I want us to eat at the table with TV off but most often we get lazy and not do it. I was wondering since times are changing, if it was still the family standard. I will enforce it as well. Thank you all.
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