Dinner routine?

cphillips1021

If everyone eats at the same time (parents & LO(s)), do you eat at a dining/kitchen table without TV interruption or do you eat in front of the TV.. or embrace some other habit from your non-baby days?  I know it will be very beneficial for DD to have our undivided attention/communication at dinner as she gets older and I want to start this soon, but we haven't.. yet.  Anyone else? Thanks!

penguingrrl

We sit at the kitchen table as a family with the occasional friday night pizza and tv treat.  DH and I did this before kids as well.  I always got home from work first, so /i would have dinner ready when he came in and we'd eat together and talk about our day.

izzybella

We eat together with no TV, whether it's all 4 of us or just DD and I. It's important to us that dinner is family time.

KariChadDora

We either sit down together at our dining room table or the kitchen bar and usually just talk about our day, sometimes we have the TV on in the background, but we usually don't watch it necessarily.  Currently I feed my little guy first before we sit down because he is still not doing a lot of finger foods/self-feeding and then we pull up his high chair with us and he works on puffs while we eat. 

seethesmiles

Before DS was born, DH and I used to eat really late (usually after 9pm) and we'd eat at the coffee table in the living room with the TV on. We continued that habit until DS started finger foods, which was around 7.5 months. At that point, we decided we should set a better example so now we have dinner as a family around 6:30pm. We eat at the kitchen table, no TV, but sometimes we have music on in the background.

Mrs.Teddy

When DH is home we all eat together. We sit at the island and our highchair rasises up to that height. The TV is off. When DH is working I usually feed L at the table but I don't eat with him I eat later when DH gets home.