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[quote=Anonymous]I’m curious about responses from parents with older kids.

OP, we have a preschooler and still do what you do: she eats dinner early, then we do bath/bedtime, then DH and I do a relaxing dinner just the two of us.

It’s not like we aren’t spending her dinner time together— she sits at the counter and one of us usually sits next to her while the other works in dinner. We talk and connect, it’s just DH and I are usually just having a drink, not eating.

Fir a while I was worried about not instilling healthy eating habits, but with the pandemic we eat all our other meals together and DD actually helps us with a lot of meal prep, so I am less concerned that we don’t eat dinner as a family. It also tends to be her most challenging meal if the day because she’s dropped her nap and starts to get a little challenging by 6pm. It really doesn’t feel like we’d get much out of a family meal at that point.

But I’m interested in what others have done. We definitely like the idea of eating dinner as a family, and want to transition to that, but don’t feel ready yet. We’re thinking once she’s actually going to school 5 days a week, it will make more sense and we’ll want that time. But that’s probably at least a year away.[/quote]

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