Eating habits/rules

In our house, everyone sits at the table when we eat. This applies to all snacks etc. There is definitely NO running while eating & no eating in other rooms. We have dinner together maybe half the week, & the rest of the week DS eats at the table & I will sit with him. The TV is off when we eat-except when DS is already in bed, then DH & I will sometimes eat in front ot the telly

*waits with bated breathe for someone to come along and say that Isabelle is now going to be developmentally or socially challenged because of her eating regime*

dinner we all eat together, but other meals Holly eats at her table... snacks she can eat wherever and typically has sitting on her sofa.... I try to make her sit whenever she's eating but doesn't always work out that way....

Heidi (13 months) eats her main meals in her highchair either with us in the kitchen or outside at the table at the moment since the weather has been so good.

We always eat breakfast together, and lunch too (Heidi and I that is, DH is hardly ever here) dinner is at 5ish for Heidi so I don't normally eat at the same time, but if DH is home we have been having BBQ's together and eating at the table outside.

We don't do any meals in front of the TV (with Heidi that is, but DH and I always eat in the lounge) but Heidi does have her morning bottle in front of the TV watching Playhouse Disney or similar.

Once H is older then I expect we will all eat at the table together just like we did when I was young. The only time we ever ate in front of the TV in the lounge was when we got fish & chips and had a "picnic" on the floor.

HeidisMum wrote: Once H is older then I expect we will all eat at the table together just like we did when I was young. The only time we ever ate in front of the TV in the lounge was when we got fish & chips and had a "picnic" on the floor.

we used to do this with fish'n'chips too - one of my fave memories :)

We all eat our meals together at the table/highchair. Snacks Alex just eats wherever most of the time at the mo thats outside or we sit on the couch together with our 'coffee'. Alex is asleep at lunchtime so thats the only meal he eats on his own when he gets up which is really just more of a big snack.

We all eat together in the lounge. We don't have a dining room at our house or room for a table so the kids have dinner on their own little table in the lounge, while we sit on the couch.
TV is usually on

We have breakfast, lunch and dinner together at the dinner table in the kitchen, so no TV because we don't have one in there. Plus my parents used to watch the news during dinner when I was growing up and I hated it because we would always be told to stop talking! So I like not watching TV because we get to chat

When DH goes back to regular work hours, he doesn't finish until 7pm though, so it's just Chloe, Ollie and I for dinner. Often I will just eat a little something with them at the table and then DH and I will watch something on TV when we have our proper dinner, after the kids are in bed.

Occasionally, if DH and I are going out for dinner or something (so rarely, lol) then Chloe will be having dinner by herself, and then we do something easy and she's allowed to sit on the mat in the lounge and watch TV while she eats. But that's a special treat.

Snacks are either at the table (especially if messy like yoghurt or something), or in the lounge on the plastic food mat on the floor. I don't like them running around the house with food because we have dark carpet and all the crumbs and food would get everywhere! Ollie sits in his bumbo on the mat, when we have snacks in the lounge - because obviously he's a little young to understand that he can't move off the mat, yet.

We used to do the fish'n'chip picnics on the lounge floor too, when I was little

we have a high chair that is attached to the table so mack eats in there. i sit with him if he is eating when im not but i normally feed him then he sits with me while i eat my lunch. DH is home for bfast and dinner so we all eat those together at the table. he can have bottles in the lounge and isnt eating morning and afternoon tea yet but he'll most likely be at the table for those too (or outside)

Breakfast and dinner they eat at the table with me sitting with them. DH and I eat dinner when they are in bed and DH eats breakfast and goes to work while I am organising the kids in the mornings.

 Lunch and snacks are more relaxed, as long as they are sitting down thats fine. Joel quite often will point to the snack cupboard or try to get in the freezer for frozen peas, once I get him something he will either sit straight down on the floor or race off and climb into his highchair waiting.

TV is on at lunch sometimes but not at dinner.