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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's fine. People make such a big deal about this. I sat down to a dinner with my entire family at 6pm every single day for the first 17 years of my life and guess what? My family is super dysfunctional, my parents are both horribly overweight, my sister has an eating disorder, it's virtually impossible to get my entire family together for a meal now, even for something like my parents 50th wedding anniversary (not least because my parents do not like each other).

Our kids eat separate from us for dinner about 5 nights a week and one is a super picky eater. It's fine. Everyone eats a healthy diet, everyone gets enough sleep, we have good communication and problem solving habits and everyone likes each other and is pretty happy with our family life. So who cares about dinner? It's not some magic bullet that ensures your family will have good relationships and your kids will be healthy.

Do what works for you. Forget about what other people are doing, it doesn't matter.[/quote]
Well, my family didn’t eat dinner together and it’s dysfunctional whereas my husband family did and they are all close. [/quote]

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