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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're probably keeping a much later schedule than you realize and can't adjust.[/quote]

This.

I get along great with my ILs and my sister and her family and my parents.  And our family vacations are always great.

Expect, we normally, as a family, eat dinner at 8:00.  Others are used to dinner as early as 5:00.  Others are anywhere in between.

I realize we are the outliers (just as much as my parents who like the 5:15 dinner).   But its still tough to adjust when they start talking about dinner at 4:30, or suggest we need to get back so we can start cooking.

And on vacation, I'm even more cavalier about when we eat.  If we're no duty to cook dinner that night at the beach house, but its a beautiful evening on the beach.  I'm not packing up at 5:30 just to make sure dinner is on the table by 6:30.  We can eat at 8:30 or 9:00[/quote]

My kids wouldn’t wait until 830 or 9. It looks like you shirk your cooking duty when it’s your turn. We’d just leave and go eat out rather than wait for the spirit to move you when everyone is starving.[/quote]

Okay.  Cool, but we're still splitting the grocery bill for that meal.

And honestly, its a family vacation.  Which, ya know, is meant to be spent with family.  If you'll be too hungry to wait until 8:00, have a snack at 5:00.

Kinda like when the other folks cook, and serve dinner at 5:30.  I don't skip it and go out to a later dinner bc I'm so stubborn and stuck in my ways.  I eat at 5:30.  And then, when I'm hungry again at 10:00, I'll have a snack.  See how that works?  That's called flexibility.  [/quote]

Sorry. Can’t tell young kids to suck it up and be flexible and be grateful for whenever dinner decides to make an appearance on the table. The adults should be more understanding. Again, I would just leave and go feed my kids rather than listen to them complain about hunger for hours. You’re an adult, I would expect you to figure it out for yourself. But kids are a captive audience with little ability to be resourceful and cook a meal or feed themselves. You’re clearly not a parent. My kids come before Auntie and her whims.[/quote]

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