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[quote=Anonymous]Thank you for this thread. I could have written exactly the same, at almost the exact time OP posted - right after dinner Sunday evening. 13yo DD has two siblings -- 11yo sister and 10yo brother -- and she and the brother are constantly at it with one another. At dinnertime, which we can only do with all five of us 3-4 times a week due to parent work or activities, I really try for us to keep civil. On weekdays DH and I want to hear about their day, and they ask about ours and we talk about the work we do, and on weekends we often turn to some of the current events going on around us, or pets, or extended family, or whatever. But I also use this time to reinforce and practice table manners (how to hold knife and fork to cut meat), sit up straight, elbows off the table, take turns talking. Their grammar has already improved from dinners over the years ;-)

But WOW most evenings 13yo DD is hard to take. I do realize I need to get dinner on the table much earlier as she starts feeling tired even by 7PM these days (even on weekends when she really sleeps in).[/quote]

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