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Getting people back round the table!
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What is it about modern living that stops people from dining at the table?
Mealtimes are an opportunity to laugh together, bond and share experiences.
Why do people no longer eat at the table? (discuss)
Mealtimes are an opportunity to laugh together, bond and share experiences.
Why do people no longer eat at the table? (discuss)
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.According to the 2004 National Family Mealtime Survey, 20% of those asked sat down to eat together just once a week or less. The poll, by parenting organisation Raisingkids.co.uk, found children often had meals alone in their bedrooms while watching TV or playing computer games. Of those who did eat together, TV was the preferred dinner guest, with 75% eating while watching it.
Families vary hugely it's not just the cosy little nuclear family with everbody sitting down and politely talking about their days.
It's not the having meals that's important it's the sharing something - anything.
for example I often go out training before dinner and eat late and my wife will sometimes not want to eat. My kids tend to skip their school lucnch and come in ravenous. But we'll most likely watch a bbc2 documentry or comedy together in the evening.
If you have a great big "Waltons" thing going on and everybody wants to join in that's great but personally in my teens I'd have hated having to sit down for a meal with all my family and I'm certainly not going to push it down my childrens throats.
Who are the "National family mealtime survey" anyway? Oh look it's a comprehensive survey of the registered members of www.raisingkids.co.uk
Hardly what you'd call a representative sample is it?
It's not the having meals that's important it's the sharing something - anything.
for example I often go out training before dinner and eat late and my wife will sometimes not want to eat. My kids tend to skip their school lucnch and come in ravenous. But we'll most likely watch a bbc2 documentry or comedy together in the evening.
If you have a great big "Waltons" thing going on and everybody wants to join in that's great but personally in my teens I'd have hated having to sit down for a meal with all my family and I'm certainly not going to push it down my childrens throats.
Who are the "National family mealtime survey" anyway? Oh look it's a comprehensive survey of the registered members of www.raisingkids.co.uk
Hardly what you'd call a representative sample is it?