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[quote=Anonymous]We had them every night, 4 kids, generally pretty late so older siblings could do activities prior (activities seemed to end earlier then!). Often we'd have stray teenagers in attendance. They were great, and a rare chance for all of us to connect. My parents always joked our dinners were the reason I had such a big vocabulary (I was the youngest).

I remember kind of rolling my eyes at them in high school, when it was just my brother and I left in the house, and my parents would be enjoying wine and jokes for an hour while we desperately waited to be released to finish our homework. In retrospect, even those are good memories. Our family dinners are something my siblings and I joke about a lot, from the time they all paid me to eat a spoonful of horseradish, to how my mom would always dim the lights, light candles, and put on 'dinner music'. She's been dead 10 years, but I always think of her and our dinners when I hear George Winston.

Family dinners are definitely something I prioritize with my own kids. At least at this point, there's no dinner music, though we do use cloth napkins :)[/quote]

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