6:30 is ideal for us and finish about 7pm. Sometimes, 7pm. That gives our middle schooler 1.5 hour to relax (which really doesn't happen because after a meal, our kid moves and talk alot). It's really an hour after to move and 30 minutes to calm down before bed. Bedtime is at 9pm. He get up about 6:30 and heads out the door at 7am.

It's better to stay with a routine to better manage kids. I hear parents complain about their kids not getting enough sleep and being late to school. I just ask them what time do you have dinner and what time do they go to sleep. If you have a regular school schedule, it's best to be done with dinner by 8pm. And it's worse on the weekends, some family eat their breakfast at 11am, lunch at 4pm, dinner at 9pm.

Usually 8 or 8:30. Totally dictated by kids sports schedule. Wish it could be earlier mostly because because I end up eating more over the course of the day with a late dinner but I haven’t figured out a solution. I get up very early so many nights I pretty much eat dinner and go straight to bed.

Anywhere between 4-6pm. If we eat at 4/430 DD has a snack around 7. I have a snack around 8 when she’s in bed. She eats lunch at 12 at school so is usually hungry by 4, and he does martial arts and the class is 530-630 twice a week. I don’t want to start dinner when I get home after that.

Between 5:30 and 6. I have a 2yo but also I’ve always liked early dinners; I start wanting to chew my own arm around 6/6:30. 😂 I’m a morning person and my day starts between 5 and 6AM so that may have something to do with it. I wouldn’t mind doing dinner earlier (5ish) but 5:30/6 is when we get home from daycare pickup.

Between 5-6 pm. We start getting ready for bed at 8 pm and are usually in bed by 9-9:30 pm.

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Anonymous wrote:Between 4:00 and 4:30. Love it.

Wow. I don't even eat at all until 1-2pm, I would never be hungry for dinner at 4 nor would I have time to prepare anything by that point as it's the middle of my workday.

My kids aren't even off the bus yet and I'm still at work.

6:30

Anonymous wrote:Between 4:00 and 4:30. Love it.

Wow. I don't even eat at all until 1-2pm, I would never be hungry for dinner at 4 nor would I have time to prepare anything by that point as it's the middle of my workday.

6-6:30. Pre-Covid when we worked out of home, it would be more like 7 or 7:30. Love having no commute.

6-6:30. We have three young kids and like eating dinner together.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Between 4:00 and 4:30. Love it.

Same here! I thought we were the only weirdos that did this. Sometimes we stretch it until 5 but we eat super super early.

Wow. Younger kids, or is there some other logical reason?

Do what works!

Glad to know we're not the only ones! We have 5 & 7 yo who seem to need a pretty early bedtime, so 5pm dinner it is for us. Occasionally on weekends we might stretch to 5:30.

6pm, plus or minus a 1/2 hr or so. My 12yo ds needs to go to bed by 8pm, so that tends to lock us into 6pm-ish dinner.

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Anonymous wrote:Between 4:00 and 4:30. Love it.

Same here! I thought we were the only weirdos that did this. Sometimes we stretch it until 5 but we eat super super early.

Wow. Younger kids, or is there some other logical reason?

Do what works!

Anonymous wrote:Between 4:00 and 4:30. Love it.

Same here! I thought we were the only weirdos that did this. Sometimes we stretch it until 5 but we eat super super early.

Between 4:00 and 4:30. Love it.