Eating together is very good, it breeds love, trust, cheerfulness, and unity.

here in our house we always eat together. We are not allowed to skip a meal and not join the family in taking the meal. If someone is not yet home, we have to wait for them so that we can eat together. It is a mortal sin her not to join the family in eating.

yeah get tv trays an all eat in front of the tv...lol

hi icesmile, it certainly is a good thing for everyone in the family to sit for meals together as long as they enjoy it and not get into discussions and arguments.when i was working in one of the Gulf nations 25 years back our staff members would sit together to eat in our quarters as we had a very long dining table with an extension. It was certainly fun and entertaining but sometimes there would be arguments which would spoil our meals.Unfortunately i do not have a family since i am staying all alone as my brother and his family are in Canada.I do not have anybody to talk to as i eat alone watching the TV.

indeed...on weekdays, we rarely eat dinner together because my son has classes until 7pm. so i look forward on weekends where i can cook special for the family.sometimes we plan picnics or going to beach just so we can have family together where we can have long talks and being just with each other's company.

To be honest the only time we all sit down together to eat a meal is of the weekend as well as at Christmas as we are never all here together.I would love to sit down all together as i find that if there are any problems with anyone then that is the ideal time for us all to talk.

I grew up in a family where everyone would eat at their own time when it pleases them. However until now i feel it wasn't such a good idea. Family meal time is the time you bond as a family, get to know each other better and discuss issues that affect your families. Even at work people would organise lunches just so they can be more acquanted and get to know each other.So yes now that i have my own family, family meal times are very important to me.

I have read in a book about raising up kids that the meal time is a very important part of family bond, much more that spending time outside or tucking them into bed. Like you said, i think it is because during meal times, you get to talk about what happened during the day, you have more time to talk while eating. After reading about it, I exerted more effort to spend dinner time with my kids and breakfast during weekends.

I agree that eating together is a good idea! I try to as much as possible but honestly since my boyriend works nights and isn't home for dinner me and the kids usually just eat in front of the tv, or inbetween playing here and there! But on the weekends I love making a big breakfast so we can all sit down together and eat! It is a nice break enjoying food and talking, all of us together.

i agree with you really. spending time with the family during meal is really effective. its very proper to show your love and care with your love ones. and your appetite is good also if you were together during meal time.

I eat all the time with my family it's something we've always done. that's why I often feel strange when I'm out on my own and have no one to eat with. sometimes I ask to join other people so I don't feel so unbalanced.

icesmile.. my family is one of those that have meals together all the time! we not just have meals together within the family, we even invite my close relative over! My dad has been putting this good values in us since young, and we are to have meals together as often as possible and not just during those festive seasons like CNY and mid autumn festival I find it good to have meals together, and food taste different, it's taste better and more delicious! I think sharing is the best way to get good food ya..

HI Icesmile, Eating together with family members is important as that is the only time when everybody are back home and spent time together in a dining table. For me, I always have my dinner with my husband and my son. That is one of our family time in a day. We will have a delicious dinner together,have a nice chat with my husband and spent our times together with our son.

now that the children are older and have their respective individual responsibilities to do, we do not eat together for breakfast and lunch. we make it a point to have dinner together. we wait for everyone to be at home before we start eating. in the dining room where we eat, we update each other how our respective days went. it is where we talk and laugh at the same time. weekends find us eating together for breakfast, lunch and dinner and time for bonding.

Hi icesmile,Yes! i agree with you, but just only happens when they were kids.But as years passed, after finishing college,and already have works,eating together with the family happens only once a week, every sunday, because they are busy and schedules are hectic.For our family, we scheduled sunday as family day...Good day!

Eating together is very common in Chinese families. The reunion of a family is very important. So, in many festivals, people want to go home to reunion with the family. It breeds love trust ,cheefulness and unity.

Eating together keeps the family closer with each other. This is the best time for parents to get updates from their children – what happen in the school, any great achievement for the day, any concern. This is also the time to table plans, anything that needs everyone’s opinions and views and come up with an agreement. In our country, eating together as one family is one of our best trait. It’s not serious all the time and there were also funny times. Usually we experience this during the weekends because it’s our off.

Eating together is the very nice type of bond for the family. The family grow stronger and never neglect the member when they eat together becasue they were able to share what they do for the whole day.

Ever since when I was a child we eat together when we are completely home. My father always wants us to eat together. As we grow old, we all live together.

I saw an article saids that enjoy meal together benefits for children and teenager. at least 5-6 times a week whether breakfast, lunch or dinner. The reason is communication and well being between family. And manner, during having its an opportunity to show table manner and social skill. Since i was children, usually we will have dinner together. But after i grown up , and i study and work at outstation hardly to get to meal together with my family. jus get change to reunion during new year, father mother days, and sometimes siblings birthday. But i tried my best to go back home often to have meal together with family.

in my mid eating out together is great cooking is tiresome,not to mention cleaning the mess after a dinner