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| Sitting down as a family to eat is important, I think. Not only is it polite and satisfying, but it also teaches proper behavior to our children. Not everyone has the time, with schedules different and all, but making at least one night a week is great. |
| posted by Roxanne on 11/16/2007 05:56 PM |
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| I really enjuy sitting down as a family to eat so I can catch up on how my husband's day went and what he plans on doing that night. |
| posted by Chelle on 11/17/2007 08:46 PM |
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| I grew up having sit down dinners every night as a family. I believe it is extremely important, however my DH works nightsso we do not get that chance. I really hope his schedule changes so we can have this experience as a family:) |
| posted by Amber on 12/10/2007 04:54 PM |
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| I think dinner together is very important. I grew up this way and I want my family to do this at home. It is a good time to connect as a family and talk and enjoy good food. |
| posted by Renata on 12/14/2007 09:56 PM |
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| I eat every meal with my kids, sitting at the table (except for special "picnic" days). My husband joins us for dinner (he works nights, so sleeps during the day. |
| posted by Lindsey on 02/27/2008 05:18 PM |
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| I grew up eating sit down meals three times a day with my mom and sibblings and dad when he was home. Now that I am married we at least eat dinner together but we have started eating lunch as a family now that he gets to come home for lunch and our daughter is old enough to understand. There are the special nights we eat in front of the tv watch a movie together, I think that those are just as imortant. |
| posted by Anne on 04/23/2008 03:47 PM |
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| every night, even if its just pb&j sandwich. We sit at the table, eat and talk about our days. We use to eat in the living room watching tv but we decided that it just wasn't working so we changed and we both like it |
| posted by Amers on 06/30/2008 11:22 AM |
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We try to do it as often as possible but it is usually every evening for dinner. I think it is so important because this is a great time to interact with the kids and they really open up about what is going on in their life at school and with their friends. I think it is very important to know what the kids are being exposed to and how they handle every day life.
Plus it is a great bonding time and they look forward to it everyday!
:) Suzanne
www.OnMomsTime.com |
| posted by Suzanne on 10/18/2008 02:46 PM |
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| We sit down to dinner every night. My DH and I think it is very important for our son to see us talking about our days and stuff. He is two and thinks it is great to have both mommy and daddy together. |
| posted by Hope on 12/08/2008 09:49 AM |
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| We usually have dinner as a family every night as my husband works so he cant make it to lunch :< But on weekends we have all our meals on the table and make a fun 'event' out of it. Its important as it teaches kids discipline and table manners and respect and it will stay with them forever as kids learn fast and remember all the good and bad things! |
| posted by Shama on 02/06/2009 11:54 AM |
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| Never. It's a really bad habit that I believe I would like to break. |
| posted by Krista on 02/15/2009 07:31 PM |
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Family meals are very important to me. My thinking? In the wild, food to animals is survival. To share food is to sacrifice yourself for another. So in the wild, sharing food is LOVE. As refined as we believe we humans are; I feel that thinking is still engrained within our genetics.
When I prepare a meal, and we share at the table, we are loving one another.
I lovingly prepare meals for my wife. She pauses between bites to feed our daughter. Everyone is giving of themselves. I love our family meals! |
| posted by ted on 04/21/2009 08:03 AM |
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| I wish we could do sit down dinners. My husband works the night shift as an officer so dinners are out. We do try to do lunch together as often as possible if he is awake or doesn't have court :0) |
| posted by on 05/18/2009 11:58 PM |
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| we eat dinner together everynight. its one of our fav times of the day |
| posted by kati on 11/10/2009 09:36 AM |
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| My husband goes to school FT, and doesn't get home until late two days a week. But we make it a point to always sit down together for dinner - when he isn't home, I still sit at the table and eat dinner with the kids. I'm a firm believer in eating dinner together - even as they get older, I'm hoping it will encourage open dialogue and close relationships with our kids. |
| posted by April on 03/05/2010 07:38 AM |
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