So Heather posted a
link to this article on FB (I think it was Heather anyway, lol!), and it got me curious.
How many of you do family dinners? Do you eat at the table or on the couch? How often? Etc, etc, etc.
Growing up, even through High School, if you were home for dinner, you were sitting at the dining room table eating as a family. We didn't have cell phones back then (or not for most of the time), but we never answered the phone during dinner (it was always telemarketers anyway, lol!). My mom made one meal, and you had to eat a few bites of it even if you didn't like it. If you didn't like it, you made yourself PB&J. We drank milk 90% of the time, unless we were having italian, lol. You HAD to finish your glass of milk, or you weren't allowed to leave the table.
That was it. No making 3 different meals for various picky eaters, no texting during dinner, no distracted tv watching.
It's so DIFFERENT now, isn't it? I mean I know times change and all, but I hope to do the same thing with my kids. (I know, I know, wait til I have kids and that plan gets thrown out the window, lol.)
I was just curious what everyone else does. Right now we usually don't even eat together (which I know am going to work on changing), and if we do it's in the living room while watching tv.