You have to be doing pretty well in this day and age to have a space big enough to dedicate to a dining room table. We try to have “sit down dinners” but all we have is a bar with seating for two, but 3 people in the house. As soon as the couch is involved, its pretty hard not to want to turn on the TV.
well yeah. I don’t want to just sit and hear everyone else chewing. Blech.
I don’t even have a TV in the main half of the house. You have to go to the TV room to see the TV.
I want to say this is because we are strict as a family about screens and mental hygene… but really it is because mobile screens are all over the place so nobody needs the TV for anything other than group watching.
We sit down to dinner as a family almost every night. The TV would be visible if we chose to run it, but we rarely do. We sit down and discuss our day or have other conversation. We do play music (old school vinyl) some nights.
If I’m eating alone, absolutely. But not during a sit down meal with family.
Dinner is when we get our TV watching in. We have plenty of other time to spend talking.
Growing up, we always read at the table. It was usually a mix of the newspaper and books. We’d occasionally talk about what we were reading. I was pretty confused later in life when I learned other people thought it was rude. But I mean, just like now, dinner was far from our only time to be together. I understand the restrictions if that’s your only family time.
My wife and I watch Jeopardy and just chat while we ignore all the ads during the commercials.
My wife and I work together. So of course we eat in front of the TV. We’re together 24/7 and what’s to talk about? But for those that don’t work together hearing about each others days is important
My wife and I usually sit on the sectional and watch something while eating dinner. Our dining room table sits 6, but a good 3/4ths of it is covered in mail, bags, random stuff, etc. We usually will only clear this off and eat here when we have guests coming over for an evening or extended stay.
Wow. I can’t think of the last time I did and I live alone.
Hmm I guess that’s not surprising. I grew up watching TV during meals. When I got out on my own, I weened off of it. These days, we don’t even own a TV.
We do this every once in a while. Like a movie night and take out or snack night. My daughter was so fascinated on a sleep over she had. She said that they ate dinner watching tv and had these little trays to put your food on lol.
I can’t even eat my food without something playing.
Then imagine what happens when all there is running is Fox News
This is wild to me. We never did this growing up and I don’t do it now!
If I’m eating alone, I prefer to be reading.
Ever been to a jousting tournament? More mead and mutton please!
I simply don’t believe most of the people here who say they don’t do this.
For us it depends. Someone I know prefers to eat alone so as not to hear the sounds of other people chewing, which is even worse at group meals where conversation is expected. Talking and eating grosses her out. Meanwhile someone else I know is vehemently opposed to eating anywhere other than the dinner table because she’s afraid of getting crumbs in the carpet and insists on the value of socializing and eating together.
Meanwhile I eat wherever there’s space and usually listen to my audiobooks with headphones and drown them all out. 🤣
If by “TV” you mean YouTube on my phone, then yes indeed!
I live alone and cook most meals, I end up standing over the stove and eating fairly often. If it’s meal prep/leftovers, or take out I’ll watch TV. If it requires a knife I’ll sit down at the table and usually listen to whatever podcast I was listening to while cooking.
A link to an article with bar charts.
This sub may well just be called r/data
The fuck else are we supposed to do? Converse with our family? Nonsense.
My family always did this when I was growing up. Now that I’m raising my own kids: never. But I do admit they read books at the table. Their little brains are so addled by electronics, even though we’re careful, that the prospect of just sitting and eating for 20 minutes without any thing to do but look at other faces is untenable for them.
I can’t remember the last time I raw dogged a meal when I was alone.
Anyone who calls me while they are eating or starts eating while we are on the phone? I politely ask them to call me back when they are finished because I cannot stand the sound of crunching while I am trying to have a conversation
Dinner always no screens. Hard and fast rule. My genZ struggled, but we weren’t even all together to eat every night of the week. I like going out bc no tv (have to pick restaurants w/o which can be challenging). Phone stays gone, too. Meanest parent in the world.
We let our son watch tv during breakfast while we are getting ready, but lunch and dinner there’s no tv or phones. We just stare…..
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You have to be doing pretty well in this day and age to have a space big enough to dedicate to a dining room table. We try to have “sit down dinners” but all we have is a bar with seating for two, but 3 people in the house. As soon as the couch is involved, its pretty hard not to want to turn on the TV.
well yeah. I don’t want to just sit and hear everyone else chewing. Blech.
I don’t even have a TV in the main half of the house. You have to go to the TV room to see the TV.
I want to say this is because we are strict as a family about screens and mental hygene… but really it is because mobile screens are all over the place so nobody needs the TV for anything other than group watching.
No screens at dinner, though. Ew.
While eating a sandwich over the kitchen sink?
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We sit down to dinner as a family almost every night. The TV would be visible if we chose to run it, but we rarely do. We sit down and discuss our day or have other conversation. We do play music (old school vinyl) some nights.
If I’m eating alone, absolutely. But not during a sit down meal with family.
Dinner is when we get our TV watching in. We have plenty of other time to spend talking.
Growing up, we always read at the table. It was usually a mix of the newspaper and books. We’d occasionally talk about what we were reading. I was pretty confused later in life when I learned other people thought it was rude. But I mean, just like now, dinner was far from our only time to be together. I understand the restrictions if that’s your only family time.
My wife and I watch Jeopardy and just chat while we ignore all the ads during the commercials.
My wife and I work together. So of course we eat in front of the TV. We’re together 24/7 and what’s to talk about? But for those that don’t work together hearing about each others days is important
My wife and I usually sit on the sectional and watch something while eating dinner. Our dining room table sits 6, but a good 3/4ths of it is covered in mail, bags, random stuff, etc. We usually will only clear this off and eat here when we have guests coming over for an evening or extended stay.
Wow. I can’t think of the last time I did and I live alone.
Hmm I guess that’s not surprising. I grew up watching TV during meals. When I got out on my own, I weened off of it. These days, we don’t even own a TV.
We do this every once in a while. Like a movie night and take out or snack night. My daughter was so fascinated on a sleep over she had. She said that they ate dinner watching tv and had these little trays to put your food on lol.
I can’t even eat my food without something playing.
Then imagine what happens when all there is running is Fox News
This is wild to me. We never did this growing up and I don’t do it now!
If I’m eating alone, I prefer to be reading.
Ever been to a jousting tournament? More mead and mutton please!
I simply don’t believe most of the people here who say they don’t do this.
For us it depends. Someone I know prefers to eat alone so as not to hear the sounds of other people chewing, which is even worse at group meals where conversation is expected. Talking and eating grosses her out. Meanwhile someone else I know is vehemently opposed to eating anywhere other than the dinner table because she’s afraid of getting crumbs in the carpet and insists on the value of socializing and eating together.
Meanwhile I eat wherever there’s space and usually listen to my audiobooks with headphones and drown them all out. 🤣
If by “TV” you mean YouTube on my phone, then yes indeed!
I live alone and cook most meals, I end up standing over the stove and eating fairly often. If it’s meal prep/leftovers, or take out I’ll watch TV. If it requires a knife I’ll sit down at the table and usually listen to whatever podcast I was listening to while cooking.
A link to an article with bar charts.
This sub may well just be called r/data
The fuck else are we supposed to do? Converse with our family? Nonsense.
My family always did this when I was growing up. Now that I’m raising my own kids: never. But I do admit they read books at the table. Their little brains are so addled by electronics, even though we’re careful, that the prospect of just sitting and eating for 20 minutes without any thing to do but look at other faces is untenable for them.
I can’t remember the last time I raw dogged a meal when I was alone.
Anyone who calls me while they are eating or starts eating while we are on the phone? I politely ask them to call me back when they are finished because I cannot stand the sound of crunching while I am trying to have a conversation
Dinner always no screens. Hard and fast rule. My genZ struggled, but we weren’t even all together to eat every night of the week. I like going out bc no tv (have to pick restaurants w/o which can be challenging). Phone stays gone, too. Meanest parent in the world.
We let our son watch tv during breakfast while we are getting ready, but lunch and dinner there’s no tv or phones. We just stare…..
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