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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are people eating in the car? I truly don’t get it.  It’s more time and work to pack up breakfast, take in the car, then clean out the car than to just eat it at the table like a normal person.  [/quote]

My kids eat at home at the dining table but I have one kid who is an insanely slow eater and I could see the appeal of a car meal for her because the drive is 5 minutes and it would basically force her to eat her meal efficiently. At home it's very hard to keep her on task and eating -- she's always chatting away, getting up to use the bathroom in the middle of the meal, coming back and complaining that her food has gotten cold or soggy in the meantime, etc.

But it's all a delay tactic. She's a homebody and even though she likes school once she's there, she hates leaving the house and fights getting out of bed and getting dressed. The breakfast thing is just part of that -- she's not like this at other meals.

I hate food in the car and like having kids eat meals at the table so we're not giving her car meals anytime soon, but I get the appeal. If she only had to get dressed and brush teeth and hair before leaving the house, we could get her out the door in like a 5th of the time it currently takes.[/quote]

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