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[quote=Anonymous]I don’t think it needs to be all or nothing. My kids are 3 and 5 and it just really depends on the night whether we eat together or do our own thing. During the week we tend to eat together more often (but only because I’ve pushed dinner back to 6:15-30). I have never been someone who can eat before 6. Honestly we eat together more now than we used to. The newborn + toddler stage was about survival to us, so I didn’t really fret over having a family meal prepared for all of us every.single.night while I was also getting up with a nursing infant and dealing with a potty training toddler. I chose my priorities and decided some quiet adult time to talk over a dinner together in the evening with my DH was important.

Now while we mostly do family dinners together, on a weekend night or two we tend to treat ourselves to some adult takeout (like sushi) after the kids are in bed. Just because it’s a pandemic doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have at home date nights.

So yes, family dinners are important, but so is your marriage. I think mixing it up establishes some level of routine with kids and minimizes the double cooking/cleanup that a PP mentioned. But you also don’t have to resign yourself to eating food your kids will eat* at 6 pm every night.

We do try to get our kids to eat food we eat, but we have to be realistic. We can all make pizza together and they like Mexican food night. But there are a lot of foods I like that just aren’t going to realistically be eaten by my kids and I refuse to make dinner a battle ground.[/quote]

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