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.Mel 
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 Posted: 28 January 2010 at 9:49pm |
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DH and I have turns cooking dinner, we eat depending on whenever dinner is ready.
DS2 sits in his blue chair with a knee rest thingee on his lap in the lounge... DD, DH and I sit on the couch. DS1 normally eats in his room.
We occasionally eat at the table, but very rarely. Our dining table is normally used for folding and storing the washing..
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cuppatea
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Posted: 29 January 2010 at 11:18am |
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We all eat at the table. Breakfast as soon as they get up so often they eat individually but I sit with whichever one is eating, or Dh sits with them if he gets them up (I generally don't eat breakfast). Lunch we sit together and I do eat with them as well and dinner we all sit and eat together (DH does shifts though so he isn't always there for dinner). No TV. They have lunch between 11.30-12 and dinner is normally 4.30pm as both boys are hungry by then, DH and me eat dinner at that time but means we are normally hungry again by 8pm so we eat again and in front of the TV.
Snacks depends what they are eating, some food they are required to sit in their highchairs to eat and others I let them eat sitting on their little sofa. Crackers though that they can't make a mess with they can eat anywhere.
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Jay_R
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Posted: 29 January 2010 at 12:04pm |
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We don't have space for a table, so Josh sits at his little table and I sit on the sofa.
We usually eat breakfast together, and I will actually squish myself onto one of his little chairs and sit with him. Lunch, if we are at home, is usually Josh at about 11.30 and me about 1pm. We don't eat together for dinner unless its a bbq and we sit outside, he'll eat a 5pm, and me not til after he's gone to bed at 6.30-7pm. I like to just relax, and enjoy cooking dinner with a glass of wine. And 5pm is way too early for me to eat.
As for tv - yep, its on for breakfast, and quite often on at dinner time too. I don't feel bad about it, and am happy to admit to it LOL.
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jaz
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Posted: 29 January 2010 at 12:42pm |
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We eat at the table and nobody leaves until the last person is finished. Caleb is usually ready for dinner about 4.30 to 5.00pm so he eats alone in the highchair in front of TV or watching me cook dinner or if I am organised I sit with him with the TV off. Then he has a light snack or nibbles off our plates and sits with us while we have our dinner.
Sometimes in the weekends we have dinner on our laps in front of TV, although Caleb is still in his highchair. I do let him walk around with dry snacks, like a biscut or box of raisens. We have a no food in the bedroom rule, although DD can make an exception if having friends over for DVD's and eating snacks like chips and popcorn.
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mummy_becks
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Posted: 30 January 2010 at 5:53pm |
The only meal we have on the week nights together is dinner as the boys have breakfast at daycare and school house. We have dinner in the lounge as the table holds everything.
The only rule we have is Josh isn't allowed a drink till he is finished as we worked out he was filling up on it before eating.
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I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
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mamanee
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Posted: 30 January 2010 at 6:50pm |
Sam and I sit in the lounge, him at his table and me on the couch when we eat lunch and breakfast. Dinner, we eat in the lounge too, Sam at his table, us on the couch. TV is on most of these times. I love TV, although Sam isn't really that interested in it. He loves Mucken Jackson though. 
We gave up the highchair when he was about 14 months old as no matter how tight it was, he would get out of it and stand on the tray bouncing on it and laughing. 
Oh and we don't have a dining table.
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