Do you have dinner together?

[briana1975]

We have dinner together almost every night. The whole family. Usually all homemade, but there are busy days that I will do something quick that already started frozen. I am a stay at home mom so I do have the time for this. But even when I worked full time we still all had dinner together. My family did it when I was a kid my husbands family also. Well a couple months ago my step son's girlfriend was over and comented about how we all eat together. When I asked her about it she just wasn't used to it because her family almost never eats together. She said a couple times a month her mom will make something for dinner. This stunned me, not having food made so you kids can have dinner? My husband and I have also noticed all the comercials about eating together as a family. So I wanted to do a poll and see how many people eat together as a family. We have so many diffrent kinds of people from all over the world here I thought it would be a good place to see.

 

[babymakes6]

We always do...

 

[Iowa Roo Mom]

I almost always feed Diesel when I eat. Does that count?

 

[biddyboo]

From the time our children were babies/youngsters, we set the pattern of dinner together. Dinner didn't have to mean that Sunday spread that Grandma used to offer. The deal is we were together for a span of time at least once a day. Good for the soul/ good for the family. Even now that DH and I are in retirement or close to it, we sit down together and our son who lives in an apartment on the property joins us for most dinners. Our other son and daughters still enjoy dinner here with their kids and one another over most things to do. Set a good pattern, you've got a set-in-concrete tradition ~G

 

[Cindiloohoo]

I have teens. If we were to not have dinner together the only time I would see them is during homeschool...which is all business. That would be sad...although some days.......with all the teen angst, "woe is me" syndrome I'd rather not LOL! For the most part, it's good, and we have good conversation around the table. You would think as much time as we spend in the same vicinity my kids would have no privacy and I would know everything, but truly, they have more privacy than I do and I know very little about how things are going in their personal lives unless they share at the dinner table. I can only imagine how little some people know about their kids, so I make a point to talk to mine daily. Knowing who they are as an individual NOW is important to teaching them how to recognize and correct themselves as adults. I just can't not have dinner together, and don't have a clue how other folks do it while raising kids.

 

[gritsar]

Absolutely. One of the reasons the divorce rate amongst law enforcement officers is so high is the lack of family life. With their whacked out schedules, it's hard for anything in their personal lives to be scheduled. My DH has been a LEO for 28 years, has always worked the night shift and he missed his DDs growing up; the school plays, the ballgames, all of it.
Most nights he works till midnight. I live on his schedule. I clean house in the evenings after he's gone to work. Around 11 PM I start preparing our supper. We eat when he gets home around 12:30 AM, but sometimes as late as 3 or 4 AM. Then we have our "evening" together.
We won't even talk about how many times his cell phone rings in the middle of the night. Rookies!

 

[saddina]

The boys and I nightly. They have a snack when mr. Saddi comes home at 9, and then off to bed.

 

[MandyH]

My husband seems to work all the time AND he works swing shift, but we make a point to eat together every night eventhough sometimes it may be at a crazy hour. Supper time is the only time our 4 year old doesn't have her head in her own little world.

 

[danielle82]

I make a dinner every night. If I didn't people would starve lol

 

[MeatKing]

Always, very important to our family!