Family dinnertime is so important

I am awful, and hardly ever sit down with my kids for dinner. They all sit together, and I will usually do other things around the house. Maybe once a week we'll have a "nice dinner" and all sit at the dining room table. I know I should sit with them more, but I eat different foods than them most of the time, and most of their meals I would rather them eat in the kitchen (easier to clean up), and we only have 3 chairs at the kitchen table. I'm full of excuses today, aren't I? lol. We do other things together as a family, so I'm hoping that makes up for the lack of meals together.

there was only my son and I so we ate dinner when I made it, now he can make his own and he may or may not eat at the same time as me.

We always have family dinner every night. Even if me or my husband doesn't feel like eating but if one of us will eat, one will just sit down have a glass of water or some fruits. If our toddler will eat, me and my husband prays with her and talk about our day. We even include our 8 months with her on her high chair. We want our daughters to learn and realize how important family and family time is. Having dinner is part of bonding and catching up.

I think that is good to be able to eat together with your family. It seems like this day people are too busy and are time occupied doing other things, that they can not spend time with their family. I know my family we are not that bad when it comes to sitting down together for dinner. So it just depends on everybody's situation.

my family and i sit at the dinner table every day for every meal. it's very important because that is the one time where everyone doesn't have somewhere to be and we can actually sit and talk about things as a family. i wouldn't have it any other way either. i was always raised that family time was during dinner and very rare did we ever sit in the living room to watch a movie, we were always at the table. it's very important to have that time with your kids. God bless

yes its true as the saying goes "the family that eats together stays forever" which is true,because there is some bonding with each member of the family when they eat together most of the time...where love grows more for each other and from that respect comes too...i see to it that we eat together at dinner with my family and when i have a chance we eat out in a good retaurant for bonding and having fun in the park too...

Well, most of the times we try to have a complete dinner time but I don't get to it mostly because I sleep during the day and I wake up an hour before I go to work and I have to rush myself to go to work sometimes I miss out on it. I try to have it with my family during weekends though.

I agree with you that family dinners are important. Once my kids grew up and moved out we, my hubby and I, tended to not sit down too often together to eat dinner. But we still made sure we did at least a couple times a week. Now I have left him and live with my daughter she and I sit down at almost every dinner time together and talk. So I would say at least 5 times a week we sit together to eat.

Yes, you are right Lolalocherrycola. My children refuse to sit together for dinner by giving all kinds of excuses. They prefer to sit right in front of the tevision set to watch their favorite programs. Some family values are no longer important to the younger generation.

never we have but we eat everywhere i dont care where u eat just put the dishes in the sink but at my mom house we all eat at the table but when where eatting not at the same time and where a family of 7

Hi Lola, I live with my partner and our two beautiful daughters and we try and sit down together every evening at the dinner table and have a meal, if we dont manage every evening then we always have Sunday dinner at the table and all together. As we have two children i think it is important to set them an example and our eldest being 6 years old already says how nice it is to sit together and often asks if we can have a meal together. When i was a child we always sat around the table and had a meal and i will bring my children up the same as my mother has us. It is an important time and a time to chat about the day and what the kids have done at school and what we have done work etc and comunicate. I do not think there is enough communication between families nowadays and everyone is always in a hurry with their lives, well ot us, its a great time to enjoy eachothers company, so go on everyone try it! x