Do you eat your meals together with your family?

yes, but only during weekends because I stay in the city while they are in the province. But what's really exciting about family dinners is that it's really a prepared event, when all of us had to share good food, and deserts. I love it.:) Dinner with family bonds your family, so better try to catch up..:)

Hello! I always eat with my family whenever its possible because its simply means a lot if we could learn the habit of being with our family during meal time. I am working and so with my husband, so we only eat together during dinner and week ends. Its much enjoyable and appetizing to eat when you have someone to share your stories with for the whole day. Its a bonding time for the family and its good to talk with each other while eating. Its not vital if you have a simple or expensive foods but the joy of seeing and hearing your family eating together with you makes you feel happy and contented knowing that you've got a family with you. Good night!

As much as possible, we eat our meals together. This also a good time to bond. No matter how busy we may get, we could catch up on what's happening to each member of the family during meal time.

In my house, we always eat together as a family. this is especially true for the dinner hour in the evening. This is a time when we can all share our day together.

We always try and eat at least once a day together. If not, I will sit with the children while they eat theirs. It is the time when we get to hear all about their day, it is so important to stay close to our children. They aren't young for long, and I for one, want to make the most of it.

Yeah, I do eat meals with my family. Usually its breakfast and dinner, not so during lunch times. We discuss a lot of things during meals and we really enjoy each other's company.

of course everyday except when the other family member have busy activities so the family would be incomplete but during weekends everyone is presence so that is a whole family day. We do a lot of activities helping, errands, cooking and watching movies or singing karaoke together and so on..

For me yes when I'm a kid but now we I'm married we it to my husband if he doesn't work.

I really don't think that not eating with your parents causes negative rebellious actions. I think only other things can cause that for example the parents not paying enough attention to their children. I'm pretty sure that in every culture eating with your family is a must although many neglect to do so because they don't see the importance in it and I would consider being one of those people. I really don't see how not eating with someone can bring about negative impacts. I really don't want to be talking with my mouth full and see others doing the same. There are many other things out there that parents can do with their children than eating with them.

Even though busy lifestyle often make it difficult, eating together as a family is important since I was young age. It becomes particularly important for the physical and emotional health of us. it brings a consistent routine back into children lives and precious opportunity for the discussions of the family member. Meals are good times to discuss values and even get hint of problems in our life.

Many times I had to eat alone while in service.I did not like it.When eating alone many unnecessary thoughts used to crop up in the mind I used to get distracted with the result I could not take food to my complete satisfaction. When you eat in company of others or with family members you feel happy because you can get involved in conversation about some topic and share their experiences.Therefore community eating or a feasts arranged on occasions when lot of people gather together is recommended.The feast arranged in open places is excellent. We cannot afford feasts on daily basis but we can eat together with family member daily.I have seen people feeling comfortable eating alone.I find such people to be morose and unsociable. We cannot help. Eating in company is the best.....

Yes, that is the time that the family can talk to what happened to them at work or at school. That is also the time that they can discuss the problems of their children.

I have been so .I think eat together , when to cultivute good feelings.we can talk about unhappy and satisfied.It is everone's day perovides spiritual pillar and baker.It is with the form of language emphasizes the importance of family.It reminds that we are a part of zhe family.

we don't eat together always..my brother's always busy with his work and girlfriend..

I live with my partner, and he is diabetic, which means that he has to have very rigid mealtimes. I am still in university education and my timetable varies a lot which means that I can't really have that many meals with him, even though I would like to. Before he got diagnosed as a diabetic, we used to eat together all of the time, and it was very romantic indeed. I think that it is good to eat together without the distraction of the television, as it means that we are able to talk to each other about our day. It is important to have that kind of interaction with your partner, otherwise your relationship might not be as strong as it could potentially be.

I highly doubt that not eating with your family in and of itself causes negative behaviors in children. It would usually be multiple causes, such as your family isn't spending ANY time with you, not just not eating together or something. That just sounds silly to me. In my family, we didn't eat dinner together after I was about eight. We ate whenever and I turned out just fine. Now, I do try to eat with my family as much as possible. I live near my grandparents and when I eat with them we do sit down to dinner together and it's nice because it gives us a chance to talk and catch up on things. Of course, now that I'm staying at home I also cook for my husband and we eat dinner together all the time and I enjoy that time together, too. I know that my husband never really ate together with his family, either, and so now it's sometimes hard for him to sit down with my grandparents and I and eat because he's used to eating on his own schedule and not having to work around everyone else's schedule.

A pleasant day to you iamdee, Previously we used to break bread together. My father will do a roll-call and checked if all the family members are already at home. Then, if everybody is at home already, then, he will prepare the food for dinner. Then, we will going to dine-in all together. We will going to eat together the food that has been served for the dinner. We used to do this for more than a decade. However, now, due to some constraints in the schedules, there are times, we cannot dine all together. Nevertheless, if there is an available time to do it again, we are still trying our best. After all, dining all together is one family traits that being teached to us during our childhood days.

Hi iamdee. Like you I also grew up with a closely knitted family and one of the common bonding time we have is during meal time. While growing up mealtimes are usually spent not only for eating but for sharing experiences and updates about our activities, discussing issues and talk about anything under the sun. We usually do this during dinner because almost all of us are in a hurry during breakfast and lunch especially on weekdays. During weekends we had more time to talk during mealtime, hence, we always end up sitting for hours around the table since we can eat and talk at a leisurely pace. Likewise during special occasions, eating together as a family is the major event. We don't usually throw parties because intimate dinners with the family and some close relatives and friends are enough for us. Now that we are grown ups and became adults, my siblings and I are geographically apart from our parents but still whenever we are home we always make it a point to eat together as a family. And when we visit or have a vacation to wherever one of our siblings reside, the dinner will always be a family event. Eating together as a family however simple it may seem keeps the family bonding tight and keeps the family together. It is not merely eating together because it has an important influence on how we value the time we spent with the family- sharing each others joys, sorrows and triumphs...sharing our blessings... sharing our lives and most of all sharing our lives with the people who meant a lot to us. Giving significance to quality time spent during family mealtime has been inculcated in our minds such that whenever there is an opportunity regardless of our location we make it a point to take time to sit down, talk and eat with a family member or members even when we are far away from home. I believe eating together as a family has become a legacy..a tradition...and it is worth passing on to the next generation.

i think a child should eat with the childs family in every meal (except lunch) because that is the time where the family is together and where they talk about how the day has/will been/be. Therefor i think it is very important to eat with you family at all times