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[quote=Anonymous]If AP is just cooking dinner for the kids, it's on her work time. 
If it's family dinner, I get home at 5:30 and everyone is "off the clock". Anyone who wants to eat family dinner has to participate in some way. My kids set the table, and the adults share cooking/cleaning. Our APs typically don't cook so help out with the clean-up. When they do cook, we clean. I also have in my handbook that if an AP is not joining us for dinner, then she should plan to make her own meal after we are finished with the kitchen. This is the same rule for our kids -we serve one meal and you are there or not, but I don't cook for no-shows. One AP wanted to saunter in at 8pm and regularly eat leftovers that I had packaged for the next day's lunch, and we had to ask her to make her own thing at that point. We of course have enough food for them to cook later if they want to. 
I also let the AP know that for nights she's not home we try to plan for things we really like but know she doesn't (ie spicy food in one case), so that letting us know is a general courtesy. [/quote]

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