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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have your nanny handle the kids' dinners. She can feed them early, then you can have a nice relaxing evening with them. You and DH can either skip dinner or eat leftovers, a light meal (cheese/crackers/crudites) or skip dinner entirely. That's what we did when our kids were those ages and it was well worth the "sacrifice" of not sitting down for dinner with them on the weekdays. The time we had with them was of much higher quality. [/quote]

All the experts say the family dinner is very important.  I would jump at your idea in a hot New York minute if I thought it was okay.  [/quote]

You asked how to make it easier, and we’re telling you how. Easier sometimes means less than perfect parenting. Or maybe you could have the nanny feed them 3 days of the week, and you eat with them on the other days.[/quote]

NP here. Also, it’s not the act of eating that is important, but that you spend daily time together. This can be dinner. But it can also be breakfast. Or an evening family walk. Or whatever, you get the point.

DH and I have 3 young kids. We eat as a family usually 3 nights per week and then breakfast, lunch, and one or both dinners on the weekend. We also feed the kids easy food and put them to bed a bit early a few nights so DH and I can eat alone and have adult conversation and food our kids likely wouldn’t eat (such as taking out sushi). There’s no need to fit some family sitcom ideal of the whole family gathered at the table for every single dinner hour. Now that our oldest is in sports we sometimes entirely divide up meals with DH and our oldest eating together and me eating with the younger kids.[/quote]

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