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OldMt Woman 9 months ago.
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Ugh!
We dont use our . . . devices, while eating.
For that matter, the wife and I make it a point to sit down after work, and talk about each others day, interesting things we read in the news, and then the dogs!
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Years ago, my youngest son had several friends over. They were out playing games when my son called them in for dinner. They said they’d come later. My son said “you don’t understanding…we all eat together”, so they came. We sat, prayed, and had good conversations. Afterwards, my son’s friends said they liked that and that their families only did that at Thanksgiving. It made me sad for them. No wonder today’s kids don’t know how to have a conversation.
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@Josefina,
Yep. We started to see it when I was in latter high school. Some of my classmates thought it was strange that our family ate dinner together.
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I have to agree. I have seen this in other families as well. We have always made eating together a habit that my daughter carried on with her children. And I am hoping that they will carry that on with their children when they start coming along.
I have always said a family that prays together stays together. So That is what we do when we all sit down to eat.
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We do that now. Our children were encouraged to talk and carry on conversations with the adults. The boys do that with their kids and our grands know their opinions are always welcome. In fact when me and the sibs would get to telling (clean) jokes, we used to have to warn my mother’s mother to put her coffee down. My brother once told a joke that resulted in our VERY prim and proper grandma to snort her coffee out her nose. SO now that was and still is a family tradition, someone will say put the coffees down it’s joke time.Our boys could discuss current affairs even when they were in 2nd grade, used to flip out one of the teachers that they were articulate and knowledgeable about what was going on around them. By the way that teacher was a PITA and didn’t last long at the school.
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@mamacando….ack, I’m glad I wasn’t drinking something when I read about prim Grma…LOL
Just DH and I now. We vacillate between sitting together [no dining room or kitchen table…house toooo small] in living room or splitting to finish whatever we were working on while eating. I often do computer while eating and he watches videos while eating. Different rooms. But other times we sit and eat and talk. No big strain either way.
When the kids/grands visit….whoooeeee, the noise then. Everyone talking and laughing and reminding of old jokes and funny events. Fun.
OldMtWoman ….I’m still chuckling about Grma… 🙂
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