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[quote=Anonymous]My H and I have a drink and "appetizer" with my kids. Then we have a real dinner after they are in bed. We do make them fresh healthy food and it's usually what we eat but earlier. Eating dinner is VERY important if you literally spend no time with your kids AT ALL. Many men especially don't even see their kids until dinner then mom does bedtime, so when would they see their kids if they did not do dinner. That's not how our house is run so it's not as important to us, but it's important to check in with the kids daily. If you are fully engaged in your children's lives, dinner is less important. Now that my kids are in college (and when they were in HS) it was very important to me to have 3 dinners together a week because there is little opportunity to "check in" with them. They played sports 3 seasons so they were home from HS around 7-8, quickly ate and then had homework until 10-11. The drive themselves so there isn't even that time together. [/quote]
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