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Did you sit at the table as a family when you lived at home
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I did as a kid. We don't have a dining table right now as we live in a flat it wouldn't work in but maybe when we move. When I have dinner at my other partner's place we have dinner at the table as his place is open plan so he has a table and chairs. |
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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago
Northampton Somewhere |
We did on Sundays when I was a child. Now I have my own family we sit around the table every night, it's one of the only times we are all together. It's so important to me, I hope my children do the same  |
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Christmas dinner and roast dinners yeah
But it was only me and my mum and half the time we’d eat at different times so I’d either eat at my computer, in front of tv or in my room
Now it’s just me at home so I’ll eat in front of tv, same if I’m visiting my mum
But at my dad’s it’s always at the table |
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By *akie32Man
over a year ago
winchester |
we always did growing up, my dad would make a point of being home from work in time, dont now tho, i think times have changed, and most people dont have a big enough house for a dining room, shame, but things change, its a very different world |
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"we always did growing up, my dad would make a point of being home from work in time, dont now tho, i think times have changed, and most people dont have a big enough house for a dining room, shame, but things change, its a very different world"
it certainly is a different world my friend |
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Yeah, always meals at the table when I was a kid. Not allowed down from the table until the plate was empty and you had been excused.
Now it’s just me but all meals are at the table. I don’t have a telly so no meals in front of that but I do sometimes have a paper at the table when I’m eating dinner. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes as a child it was family time, my mum and dad worked hard and that 30 mins was real family time talking and catching up on the day.. i suppose its one of the only cypriot traditions that have stayed part of us even still do now even if on my own.
Couldnt sit watching tv with dinner on my lap  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yea we always sat down together when dad got home from work.
Mix or TV and table when I moved out but I do enjoy time around a table at dinner to catchup with no phones, TV or other distractions.
Phones at a table in the house or out for a meal with family/friends is a big no for me |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Never lol coz it was just me and mum mostly. Only time was Christmas really. I did sometimes sit at the table at my grandparents house but again rarely because I wasn’t often there. If and when I have a family it’s something I’d like to happen though. Think it’s an old fashioned value which we’ve lost over time. |
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Yes always did, it was family time no matter whether tired from school or work. You stayed until everyone had finished or daily chat was done, then you asked permission to leave the table.
It continues to this day in my house and when we return to my parent’s houses |
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By *929Man
over a year ago
newcastle |
No always just sat in sitting room watching telly we never had a table most of growing up me Mam once out the blue got one and decided to try make us use it to eat our tea at but nobody listened |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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When the kids come home for a visit, we always sit at the table and have our "what news do you bring to the table" time! (When they were younger, it was a great way or them to open up and talk about their day! (Got so many school/best friend/lessons/personal problems sorted out that way!!) I miss it happening daily.
Husband and i only sit for evening meal now, if were eating together, which is a lovely bonus when it happens!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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We did when the family was together when i was little, after family broke up when i got a little older it stopped, then after i hit my teens it was back to being at the table again until my mum had cancer then it was back to being in the living room/bedroom.
Tbh when it gets to my own place, have a dinner table and in a relationship again, itll be at the table, unless its something like finger food (burgers, nachos, torillas/burritos) which we would do on the sofa with something on netflix |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Yes always did. We have a sit around breakfast bar, so we all sit together for most meals. But we do try to make an effort for Sunday lunches at the main table.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I have a new sofa and dining table and myself and my son sit at the dining table only so as not to get food on the new sofa, its nice though we chat and its much easier to eat our dinner |
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"I have a new sofa and dining table and myself and my son sit at the dining table only so as not to get food on the new sofa, its nice though we chat and its much easier to eat our dinner "
Morning my friend exactly the same as us but you forget how good it is at the table |
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By *adyJayneWoman
over a year ago
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"Yes and we still do in our house. And the kids have to ask to be excused from the table when they've finished. "
Yep this. Love having dinner together as a family. My parents do it and my siblings do it with their families too. |
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Always sat down at the table, my father was a ships captain, and a lovely man, but table manners and dining protocol were of the untmost importance to him. You didn't sit down to the table in our house either with a cap on, or without a shirt on. Old habits die hard, and I've been tarred with the same brush. |
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"Always sat down at the table, my father was a ships captain, and a lovely man, but table manners and dining protocol were of the untmost importance to him. You didn't sit down to the table in our house either with a cap on, or without a shirt on. Old habits die hard, and I've been tarred with the same brush. "
good habits |
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"Best family time sitting together at a table, might take an effort to get the kids there but worth it."
Couldn't agree with you more, I entertained eleven of us last night for a birthday celebration, whose ages ranged from ten year old to seventy five years old. Adults at one table, kids around another. It was quality time on the highest level. |
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We always ate at the table growing up, even if we weren't all together. It was never a consideration to eat anywhere else. Breakfast and lunch were at the kitchen table, dinner and special occasions were in the dining room.
My kids have always eaten at the table until very recently. I still do (unless K has made breakfast in bed).
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Oh definitely, my mum was Italian and meal times as a family were non negotiable, we’d have to wait for everyone to finish or ask permission to leave the table |
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Nope. We rarely ate together.
Me and my sister ate at a fold up table when we were children. Once I was old enough to cook for myself that's what was expected of me, I had to ask "please may I have the tomato soup" for example, but was told to choose wisely what I cooked as that would be it for the evening and I wasn't allowed anything else.
Only meal we all ate together at a table was Xmas day which is really shit. We had a spare reception room downstairs where we had the big table and ate Xmas dinner and it could have been so homely. Instead the room was used as a laundry dumping ground. Dirty clothes in colour pile on the floor, when they were clean you collected them off the table. Sometimes you'd wait weeks for them to get washed. I'd sneak my school uniform in the wash once the mother was in bed so I had clothes coz I was expected to wear the same shirt for a whole week. |
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Yes and for a long time as a kid it was something I hated as both parents were the table manners police. Rather than enjoying eating together it was more of an ordeal, constant bollockings for holding my fork wrong or cutting something the wrong way or not having the meat closest to me on my plate etc.
As an adult I like that I have good table manners because a lot of people eat like absolute pigs, but I dreaded Sunday dinners as a kid. |
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