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Unfortunately, we've gotten into a very bad habit of regularly eating dinner in front of the TV and not at the table. I would love if our family would sit at the table. My husband however sulks and pouts and it turns into a stressful time at the table.
Reading through most of the responses here, I probably need to assert myself a bit more and get us sitting down as a family together, regardless of my pouting husband who can't sit at the TV and watch his shows.
My boys are grown and at college so it is normally just me and hubby, we both workout after work so we normally don't eat untill about 8pm so normally it is just tv trays for us.
Although on the weekends we eat at the table and of course when the boys come over.
When the boys where younger we always ate at the table and it was important to me because the youngest couldn't focus enough to eat his full plate and it was a time for me to bond with them.
Dinnertime is the time we catch up with each other. Sometimes a family member is off at practice or rehearsal or some scheduled event, but TV is always a no no. Like others above, the only substance allowed outside the dining room or kitchen is water!
I grew up staring at the TV during dinner. The TV was never off in fact. I thought it didn't affect me, but now with greater knowledge and experience I realize how much time we actually missed out on as a family.
And the TV is now switched on for specific shows only, not just constant background mental noise. Liberate yourself! The family might be churlish and resistant at first, like kids when you take away an iPad they've been playing on for half an hour, but....
We never ate dinner watching tv. When the kids were young (up through elementary school) we ate together as a family. After that, activity schedules were all over the place (ds's club or high school swim practice & meets, dd's dance classes which were from 6-8 four times a week) and we ate when we could and when we were hungry, with the kids generally eating while doing homework.
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?
Our TV is in a TV viewing pit in the basement. No one eats anywhere except at the kitchen or dining room table, and we ignore phones during the meal. We try to sit down to dinner together every day, often get breakfast together too. When the kids were younger, the TV was on a cart in the closet, only got wheeled out to watch a video occasionally.
Dinnertime is the time we catch up with each other. Sometimes a family member is off at practice or rehearsal or some scheduled event, but TV is always a no no. Like others above, the only substance allowed outside the dining room or kitchen is water!
I grew up staring at the TV during dinner. The TV was never off in fact. I thought it didn't affect me, but now with greater knowledge and experience I realize how much time we actually missed out on as a family.
And the TV is now switched on for specific shows only, not just constant background mental noise. Liberate yourself! The family might be churlish and resistant at first, like kids when you take away an iPad they've been playing on for half an hour, but....
Yeah, electronic deveices are the new no-no at teh table, which my wife is the worst culprit fo breaking. It annoys the crap out of me when someone is checking their device while I'm talking to them at the table...so those are gone now.
Always at the kitchen table. TV is off unless it is turned right down. I grew up in a home where we all sat at the table and it is a healthy, happy way to keep communication in a family.
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