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[quote=Anonymous]My family did not do family dinners. My parents filled our freezer with TV dinners and my sibling and I warmed them in the microwave. My parents were off at meetings and work and other things. They would also go out to eat at restaurants and while my sibling and I were invariably invited, we usually did not go. My parents would have said that it "worked for us" and even that we kids preferred it that way. But, in retrospect, I see this as just one symptom of how utterly disconnected they were with their own children and how we really were like strangers who lived our own separate lives in the same house.

My DH grew up with family dinners. We have them in the family we created together. The expectation is that we will eat together. Even if I have to work late, he sits down with the kids. The food is not fancy. Sometimes it is pizza or just cereal. But the general expectation is food and conversation. We don't force the kids to eat anything or insist that they eat, but if they don't want to come we do ask them to come and say family dinner is important, just to spend time together. As the kids get older we will have them each cook one night a week. [/quote]

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