In your family household, do all family members eat each meal together, or does some members go off to eat alone? Personally, I rarely eat with my parents. My parents have a tendency to talk negatively a lot of the time, especially when eating. I think eating dinner alone is more appealing than this and so go and eat in my room. I think overall it would be more ideal eating together, but it just makes me uncomfortable to eat around others, and especially if it's sat in front of the TV or engaged in a negative conversation! What is the case in your household?
Eating Dinner together
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My dad always made it a point that we should have dinner together at the dinner table.
I see the point of it and definitely brings the family closer together, but on the nights he was away working, my mom would let us eat in our rooms and we loved it
I see the point of it and definitely brings the family closer together, but on the nights he was away working, my mom would let us eat in our rooms and we loved it
Sorry to hear that your family dinner experiences aren't very positive. I've been having dinner and other meals as a family since I can remember, although I do have a younger sibling that occasionaly chooses to have his meals at a different place or time, which always bothers the rest of us a bit - it's an all working household, after all, so we do enjoy this little time spent together at meals, since even our notions of entertainment are different (some read, some go out, some watch television).
My family tends to eat dinner together about 90% of the time. However it's just 5 of us living at home anymore so it's a bit easier to get us all together for dinner. My two older brothers and 1 older sister are all married off and have families of their own now, while me, my younger brother and 1 older sister still live at home. We try to eat dinner as a family every night but with our work schedules and such it's not always possible. I'm always home for supper though with my parents though.
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I used to ate dinner together with my parents and sister for most of my childhood days, but as soon as I reached my teen years, it was less and less frequently that we would share the table at dinner time.
Later, having computers at home, made that each of us would have dinner in front of each one's computers and basically dinning together at some celebrations.
It was until my father passed away that my mother, my sister and I re-evaluated what having dinner together means and we used to share the table again at dinner time.
I'm actually living alone, but I don't miss the opportunity to join them and eat together whenever is possible.
Later, having computers at home, made that each of us would have dinner in front of each one's computers and basically dinning together at some celebrations.
It was until my father passed away that my mother, my sister and I re-evaluated what having dinner together means and we used to share the table again at dinner time.
I'm actually living alone, but I don't miss the opportunity to join them and eat together whenever is possible.
I live with my fiancee and 2 year old son. My fiancee is often not home during most meals since he works long shifts but I try to make it a point to eat meals at the table with my son so he gets good eating habits. I think it is important for families to do, but if you are uncomfortable with your family then it is probably best to eat by yourself.
We eat as a family only on occasions such as Thanksgiving and if it's one of our birthdays. We also eat together when we have time because we're all working and running around every day with our busy lifestyles, it's nice to sit and eat together once in a while; it's so rare for me. Majority of the time we eat alone and it sometimes gets pretty lonely. :thumbdown
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My family has never eaten together at the kitchen table unless we have relatives over for a holiday. Otherwise we just scatter - some to the living room, some to their bedrooms, and some to the office to sit on the computer. Sometimes we even make our own mini meals instead of having the same thing together.
Now with my boyfriend we usually cook together and eat together when we're together. I think I prefer this.
Now with my boyfriend we usually cook together and eat together when we're together. I think I prefer this.
When I was very little we did sometimes, but not very often. Everyone's ages and schedules just did not line up. Now I also eat dinner with my boyfriend, though usually we watch something. Maybe when we get a place together with a proper dinner table we'll just talk, but for now that's mainly when we go out that we do that.
At our home we always ate with each other in some way or fashion. Even if we didn't eat at the table we would all gather around the TV and enjoy our meal. There may be the little negative conversation but then are always those times of joy. I would rather take in a little negative and a lot of joy. Then to take in nothing but loneliness and negative thoughts.
We eat together for pretty much every meal. We love to hang out though, it's a great part of our days to come together and discuss what we're up to and go from there. I'm happy my kids still want to spend time with us; we must be alright lol.
I have 4 kids. Breakfast is on your own. Lunch is too. But dinner is always together and one kids always says grace beforehand. I think it's important to come together and eat and chat. My teens are moody and don't always talk, but whatever. I like to see them.
In my family we do not eat together as that tends to be difficult especially Monday to Saturdays as we all get home from work at different times and sometimes one of us has eaten before we got home. On Sundays sometimes we eat together. On Christmas day we always eat together.
I don't live with my parents anymore so I normally eat alone but I love coming around for a dinner, my mum invites me 2-3 times a week. I can't always be there but I go to see them as often as I can. We eat alone and there is never anything negative, we are over all bad times and now we just share things that happened over last few days. I'm really thankful for those moments, it's good to have someone so close even when being a big girl.
For me, eating together as a family is no longer an option. MY brother prefers to eat with his girlfriend and they eat in his room, while I would very much eat alone. Sometimes I would pass on certain meals in order not to violate my diet for the holidays.
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