How will you encourage your family to spend more time eating together?

Actually yes we do. 6pm Monday thru Sunday dinner is served. Use to be 6:30 when I worked later. The family knows home for dinner cause the kitchen does close. :)!! It has worked even with the teenage boys in the house. They may bring a friend or two over for dinner but we all sit down together enjoy our meal the boys help clean up and then they are free. It is a great way of spending time together and hearing how each others days went.

we do eat together during our supper but since we are a busy family and have kids and teens that need to go in many different directions we try and have a game night every once in awhile too.

I feel dinner time is the best to eat with family members,because everyone will be busy out during day time and mostly they will have lunch outside with friends or colleagues.And morning everyone will be busy getting ready to leave for work and mom will be busy with her household chores.So dinner time is the best where all family members can sit together and have food, at the same time can share how their day went.Eating together brings better bonding among family members.

ask ??? and say u got ice cream :D or something they like at end ::d might work "D i would eat with my family if they was something i need at the end :D lol but if my mum ask i be happy to eat as a familt , but she does;t and i dont care D:

It is difficult to keep this nowadays. Members are growing up and they have their own social entertainment. Sometimes they spend their time for work. Sometimes for their girlfriends/boyfriends even friends. All of them are busy on their own. Therefore in my house, having meal will be separated into two different time. The one come home late will have it alone. We can't wait that late.

eating together is always grt but now-a-days due to busy schedule it is rather became less important! it nearly impossible in most of houses!

I have always maintained a properly set table where the whole family sits at the table - not scattered around the house, watching TV or doing their own thing. The evening meal is "family time" - a happy time of sharing, and a time so precious that no one wants to miss it. I am a great believer that the kitchen table should be the centre of family life, and that as children grow and leave the family home, their memories will be flooded with happy times spent around the table, sharing events of their day with freedom to express their thoughts and be heard and respected.

My husband and I live with his parents and eat with them most every day for supper. Even if not all of us are home to eat, atleast a few of us will sit down and eat together. I think it's a good idea to eat with family and talk about things, it helps keep the communication open and a good and healthy relationship with all members of the family! My husband and I will do the same when we have children and since we know that we will be living on my parent in law's property, they can come over and eat with us too from time to time!

..hi.. my father raised us with this practice.. We always make it a point that we eat together even if we have a very simple viand.. this is also a part of our family bonding.. another reason for doing this is, we pray together and we give thanks to God for His blessings.. however, when I got married, my husband's family has a very different practice.. they don't eat together.. they say, if you're hungry you eat.. the only time that they eat together is when we go and visit them.. this is why i would like to visit them often so that they could eat together because I know I can't do better now than visiting them for this purpose.. I also found that they are not that close.. they don't have enough family bonding.. although they go out together during Christmas time or new year but this is only once in a year.. they don't even ask permission or say goodbye when they are going out of the house.. I don't like my family to be build with this kind of orientation.. So I always tell my husband that we should eat together with our baby.. this way, we can develop closeness and family bonding.. For my husband's family, as I've said, the least thing I can do is to visit them often because i know I can't do much to encourage them to eat together..

We try but it's very hard because we all have different schedules. So, even if it's not mealtime, if we're together, we have a drink together or just sit around and have coffee and talk, maybe catch up. Mealtimes used to be really important until we all had erratic schedules with work. Eventually, that caused us to change our meal patterns and that's why we can't have meals together everyday.

Yes, even if it difficult to let my family eat together, I tend to do something useful to encourage my family to spend more time eating together. Eating together as a family allows you to spend more time with loved ones. For a family, it is obvious that the more time you spend together, the better chance you have of sharing quality experiences and building the stronger relationship. For various reasons, it may be difficult for all memebers of a familiy to get together, so, I often set a specific time for eating each day, when everyone is at home. Mostly at night, we can eat together and enjoy a better life with the whole family. When we eat together, we eat better. Besides, eating together with our family promotes healthy eating habits and positive social interaction among family members.

I always try to offer a sort of unspoken incentive to finish dinner with the family, whether it be a movie or a yummy desert (the usual). It gets the job done, as we eat together about 5 times out of seven. Plus, we all talk about the weird occurances of our day at dinner, so it's usually fun for everyone. I just hope that it will stay like that!

I was brought up to that tradition that my siblings & parents eat together ever dinner their we can talk about anything we've done for that day & I have noticed while growing I was thankful for them practising that because that made us more closer & a better person for we are together in solving problems & be their for each other comforting each other.

yes,although we seldom eating together,i know it will promot our relationship.and i'm just planning to gather every member of my family this winter.and i will be the orgnizer this time,and i'm looking forward to it.:)

I try to encourage my family to eat together. It is a time to catch up on the events of the day and what we have coming up. It helps us bond.