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My daughter is five, and we tend to change it up during the week. Some nights are family dinner and some nights we eat after she goes to sleep. We always sit together, though, even if she’s the only one eating, and talk about our day.
I feel like I can’t even imagine a time when we could have a normal family dinner together on a weeknight. Is that normal or is that going to be totally disruptive as he gets older?
We do exactly this too. Mainly it’s by choice: dinner is the moment each day that I finally get to relax quietly with my husband... I’d rather not spend that time arguing and negotiating with a toddler. I don’t worry too much that it will scar him for life though. He eats breakfast and lunch communally at daycare, and we eat those meals together on the weekends. Someday we’ll probably transition to family dinner too but I’m in no rush.
We have dinner together and always have, so my kids end up eating late, if we get off late.*
*I have a teenager, I have to tell her to come eat a zillion times before she comes out of her cave to grace us with her presence. Sometimes we are already done eating.
Struggling with this also. My daughter is 4. We struggle to get dinner on the table by 7, and she’s often over tired and too hungry and dinner is just a bad time for all of us. We think she probably needs to eat earlier, but I’m sad to lose that time with her since it’s pretty much our only family time during the week. So i have no solutions. Only solidarity.
Having this thought too. My kid is a young toddler so she still needs a lot of help and encouragement at meals, and she often wants to grab what I’m eating even though she doesn’t like it. She wants my burrito, and she will drop it on the floor if I let her. 🤷 SO and I will usually scarf down our meals while she eats (not particularly enjoyable) or wait til she sleeps. But after DST we transitioned from a 7:30 bedtime to an 8:30 bedtime (so she will wake up at 7am instead of 6am) so the trade off is figuring out mealtime together.
We used to do separate meals because toddler ate so early. And both my husband and I ate lunch so late (this was pre-COVID). Now that we’re WFH, we somehow shifted to eating lunch earlier, so now we eat dinner at 6:30ish with both kids. I have a feeling once we’re back in the office (if/whenever that is), we might shift back to separate dinner times.
We have a 3 year old, and we eat dinner together. We either eat at the family table or have a TV dinner special night. It’s not ideal eating at 6:30pm but I like getting that time together, and I think it’s built better eating habits for my son.
I have a 4 yo and 5 yo and we eat together most nights. I just stop work for dinner so we eat together at the table, then pick up anything that still needs to be done after that. We usually eat at 7ish. My kids go to bed at 8:30.
I should add that the time I eat dinner doesn’t matter to me much. Before kids we usually ate later, like at 8. But I don’t care either way (7, 8, 9- whatever). I don’t get why some people are so adamant about eating at a certain time 🤷♀️
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It was hard to do dinner with our kids when they were younger and we were not working from home. Now that I’m working at home I break for dinner and bedtime. But my experience is that toddlers don’t really sit and eat ever. At least not mine!