Originally Posted By Lady Starlight every night at dinner we all eat together. My DH gets up the earliest and goes off to work so we can't do breakfast together..but on weekends we eat every meal together.
Originally Posted By alexbook >>^^Watching the news while eating!??! That sounds like a sure fire recipe for indigestion.<< ...or an opportunity for education.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I'm from a BIG family. I am one of nine children. Growing up we couldn't all eat in the same room at the same time so we use to eat in shifts. In my current household there are two of us so we eat meals together each and every night. Its a lot easier when there is only two or you.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I don't allow TVs on while eating. While my other half would watch TV during meals. Right now I'm on vacation at the in-laws and they have a TV in their dinningroom. They watch TV during meals.
Originally Posted By TiggerPooh1973 We eat together every night unless my husband has a late ship and I don't wait.
Originally Posted By LuLu >>^^Watching the news while eating!??! That sounds like a sure fire recipe for indigestion.<< >>...or an opportunity for education.<< "TV is NOT The Truth, Even if You Think it Is" <a href="http://www.mercola.com/2006/oct/17/tv-is-not-the-truth-even-if-you-think-it-is.htm" target="_blank">http://www.mercola.com/2006/oc t/17/tv-is-not-the-truth-even-if-you-think-it-is.htm</a> (clip from "Network") I love this insight: "What is the purpose of news? To inform the public? Hardly. The primary purpose of news is to keep you in a state of fear and uncertainty so that you'll watch again tomorrow and be subjected to the same advertising." Sorry to change the topic! DD and I eat dinner together every night that she's with me. Breakfast and lunch, almost never! Somehow those meals we just eat when we're hungry!
Originally Posted By alexbook ^^--That was kind of the point, actually. We'd be sitting around the dinner table and hear something about Vietnam or Watergate or whatever and start debating it around the table. People would have different opinions, and agree or disagree with each other and with what had been said on the TV. I'm not sure my folks deliberately intended it as a way of training us in debate and critical thinking, but it had that effect.
Originally Posted By Ursula I am very interested to see that some people admit to watching TV while having dinner while it never crossed my mind to say either way. We always have the TV on when we eat. It's not that we can't have conversations...we can. We just like travel shows and cooking shows and home improvement shows so we watch them and discuss them. I love eating to Antiques Roadshow. We try to know what each item is worth before they say and I love guessing what the guests really think about the appraisals.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I guess I'm just old school. I really think that TVs should be in just one room in the house, a den or livingroom. Definately NOT a kitchen or bedroom. Part of the problem today is that people are far to reliant on TVs for information. There is a lot to be said about actually going out into the world and experiencing things first hand. Such as going to musuems, aquiriums, shows. Also there is a lot to be said about actually reading books and magazines. Shameless plug of Laughing Place Magazine here!!!!
Originally Posted By TomSawyer I'm with you, KT - no TVs in the bedrooms. I'm hoping to keep our home a one-TV home for as long as possible.
Originally Posted By Lisann22 Same. I refuse to put a TV in my bedroom. We have one in our kitchen/family room and the living room. Our house is big so I'm ok with it, I'd prefer we just have one but I co-own and co-exist in our house so fair is fair. Most nights we eat our dinner without the TV on, if something very intriguing or a world event of some kind is happening we will watch while eating.
