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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We sit down to a nice meal 6 nights a week.  We prioritize it, because it's important to DH and me - napkins, silverware, kids have manners.[/quote]

So your kids have no activities after about 6 PM? Parents have no PTA or board meetings, exercise classes, book clubs, etc? Everyone is home for dinner every night?

We sit down together if we can get everyone home at the same time at some point, but it doesn’t always happen. If a full family dinner can’t happen, we try to have each kid sit and eat at the table with at least one parent, if at all possible. [/quote]

Great questions - We alternate cooking (DH and I).  My kids are both in private school and sports are directly after school.  Their day is structured so that the last hour is for their sport.  Two kids - each does an activity 3 times M-F in addition to the school sport.  The older one gets picked up at about 4pm and goes home to do homework.  The younger one gets picked up at 430 and taken to the other activity, which normally goes until about 615, but we leave at 6 sharp.  We eat together at about 610 and the older one goes off to her activity that starts at 630, but she aims to get there for 645.  She’s home by 9pm.  If I’m driving DH is cooking; if he’s driving I’m cooking.  WRT to PTA and other things like that - I have 2 days a week where the kids don’t have this schedule, so we attend 100% on these days.  When these events do fall on days the kids have activities, they either: get a ride with a friend, skip, or we skip the activity.  Many of the competitions are on weekends.  For the very rare occasion there is a weekday competition, we usually don’t have a sit down together that day.

So, when I say I prioritize family meals, I do.  We cut the practice short by leaving early or arriving late.  It is important to us that we sit down and have a chat with the kids about their day.  We want to have that calm time to check in, use manners, practice speaking without talking over people or being harried.  I understand not everyone prioritizes this and that’s fine.  It’s more important that my kids are socialized than good at sports or their activity, because this is a differentiator in the real world.  They still do the activities, we just pack it all in.
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