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[quote=Anonymous]I would start making Sunday Dinner (and maybe Saturday Dinner too) a big grownup thing in your family. Prepare your fancy meals as you and DH like it on Sunday afternoon and involve the kids in the cooking part too — let them see why you and your DH love this aspect of your lives. Serve it at 5 (for the kids; you and DH just have a nibble) and again at 8:30 or whenever you and DH usually eat. Also make sure this meal is served more formally and have be an opportunity for the kids to practice serving and table manners — give them special napkins/plates/whatever so they’re excited about being big enough to participate. Then as your kids’ bedtime and dinner time move back it will be natural for them to start staying up a bit later and for you to shift prep a bit earlier so that the whole family can be part of the dinner routine. Maybe there will be a transitional period where the oldest gets to choose whether they join “kids dinner” or “grownup dinner”.[/quote]
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