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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids have activities that have evening hours, and those hours are not the same as each other.  When we are all home, probably one night Mon-Fri, we all eat together.  Whoever is home around 6-6:30 eats together.  [b]No one in my house can wait to eat until after 7, everyone gets hungry.[/b]  So different combinations of us eat at different times.  We are a family of five, and sometimes this is nice so DH and I get to focus on just one or two kids at a time, while kid #2 or #3 is at an activity.

We always eat together at home on Sunday nights, and usually it ends up one or two other nights a week.  It's just not possible the other nights.  (I have a dancer- so to "prioritize" family dinners would mean she could not do her activity at all based on when classes are held).

I grew up similarly and I managed to have good table manners and the ability to make dinner conversation.  And when we do sit down together I am certainly not dealing with cloth napkins![/quote]

How old are your kids?  Bc if they are middle school or up, they CAN wait to eat; they are just unwilling.

We have 1 HS kid and 1 MS kid, but play multiple sports, theater, band.  Dinner is usually on the table around 9:00 PM.  Some nights at 9:30

That means there's always at least one person that is at home waiting for dinner.  But we wait, bc family dinner is important[/quote]

It's good that it works for your family. But my 11-year-old is asleep by 8:45, and her 13-year-old sister by 9:15.

For what it's worth, I didn't always eat with my parents growing up. There's never the option to telework back then, and they often came home late on weekdays from their jobs. They told us to just eat at a normal time like 6:30. We did it all together on weekends. We are all very close now, and I'm actually the PP who eats with her parents once a week with my own family. [/quote]

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