Goomba38 wrote:
> Jude wrote:
>
>> We have dinner together as a family - me, my BF, and our 9 year old
>> daughter - most nights. House rule is that dinnertime is in the
>> kitchen (don't have a dining room) at the table. Sometimes we have
>> music on but not too loud - I was raised on the belief that 30
>> minutes of socializing at the dinner table was an importtant family
>> activity. No gulping down your food in 3 bites and getting up; we
>> all had to be at the table for half an hour, eat slowly with good
>> manners, and have a chance to talk about our days together.
>
> This is how I was raised also. And NO TV on!!! That is the death to
> conversation. I worry that kids nowadays aren't getting very much of
> this family dinner time and what they're losing down the road?
> Goomba

Absolutely! NO TV. We didn't have one anywhere near the table, be it in the
kitchen or the formal dining room. Now, however, without children in the
house, my parents eat at the kitchen table and there is most definitely a
television. I guess after almost 57 years they just don't have that much to
talk about

Jill