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Parents, do have the same meal time as your kids' or...?

Do you eat on your own time?

Usually I feed my kids breakfast and lunch on their own time, because I'm either not hungry at that time or don't feel like eating.

But we always have dinner together and the same time. I always sit and chat with them during meal times, but rarely eat. I might have a bite or two of their left overs or sip on my coffee while they eat.

How does that go in your household, do you eat with your kids or not?

Thanks for sharing :)

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  • 9 years ago
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    I generally don't eat the same breakfast, as I'm very guilty for only having coffee. I do try to sit with them though as they eat. As for lunch, we do typically sit and eat the same thing. And dinner, we sit and eat as a family.

  • 9 years ago

    They are usually at school to eat lunch. If it is a weekend or a day that they don't have school, they eat on their own time. My oldest is a teenager and he usually has friends over or something during the weekend. I don't force him to eat lunch when I do. I am also not always home on the weekends so it is hard to eat lunch with them. My wife doesn't eat with them either.

    Breakfast? Nope. I leave before them in the mornings. My wife usually makes breakfast for the boys in the morning and they usually eat together.

    We usually have dinner together. There are some times where my one of the boys is at practice so they can't eat with us. I have a very demanding career so I don't always make it home in time for dinner. We have dinner with all of us together about 4 out of 7 times a week.

    Even if we don't eat together we still make sure to have family time. We watch Jeopardy together every night and we go in the back yard and play basketball so we never really miss family interaction.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    It really depends. Some mornings on his way to school we will go to the Donut shop for Chocolate Milk and a Donut. On Wednesdays his mom is home in the morning so she will typically make us a big breakfast that we will eat together. And other mornings he will be running late and will just have a Pop Tart or cereal. I would say breakfast 75% of the time.

    Lunch: Only on weekends, usually together, and it's usually fast-food or restaurant after his game or practice. So usually weekends is close to 100% and unless it's summer we never eat lunch together weekdays.

    Dinner it's usually every night unless he's at a cousins or something.

  • 9 years ago

    Breakfast - my son eats first then I eat.Lunch,we usually eat together.Dinner,we were eating together but he's been stressing me out a bit recently,to the point where I can't eat a meal and I don't eat between 7pm and 7am so I haven't been eating this meal recently.We always have Sunday dinner together though as it's the only day when his father is at home for dinner time

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  • Ally
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    My sons a really bad eater, hes only 2 n half, so we make a point to eat at least two meals a day, if im at work its him an his dad have breakfast an lunch together, we all have dinner together, if im not working, him an his dad breakfast an all of us for lunch an dinner

  • Cassie
    Lv 6
    9 years ago

    We eat dinner together about 90% of the time. During the week, we don't eat lunch or breakfast together.

  • 9 years ago

    I eat dinner at the same time, but that is because I go to work straight afterwards. We eat lunch separately, because she will be at nursery and I'll be working. Breakfast is usually done together, but sometimes one of us will wake first - usually her. At the weekend, breakfast and lunch are together, and dinner depends on whether/when I start work.

  • 9 years ago

    Breakfast we all eat together, for lunch most of my kids are at school and my husband's at work, and for dinner, my kids eat a lot earlier than my husband and I. We're just not hungry at 5:45.

    :)

  • 9 years ago

    Not on weekdays. I try to have breakfast with my wife and my son but work will sometimes get in the way of that. He attends preschool but they get out at 12:00 and he comes home and eats with my wife. We eat dinner together everyday.

  • 9 years ago

    Same as you. I rarely eat at the same time but dinner time is family time so I make sure to sit down with them and eat something small.

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