Traditions at the dinner table

[ravensteve1961]

But theyre never gonna allow you say grace in a public school. But they allow grace at notre dame university.

 

[horselover61]

Yea I remmy when I was little, my family would be at the table and no tv. But now just me and my son. I tried my best to eat at the table but my son was not home to have a dinner as I tried my best. His friends are always in the house when we eat dinner. I am gotta be enforcing the change cuz I enjoy eating on the table with my son and wanting to spend time with him also to keep the tradation going.

 

[racheleggert]

when i was younger, my family would say grace and eat together but now we are more like roommates, sometimes mom cook, sometimes I cook for everyone, but most of time everyone fends themselves off with whatever they want to eat, we don't eat together anymore expect for holidays, due to schedule conflicts such as work, school, whatever are going on. There are 2 dining room in house, one by living room and other one, small one in kitchen, so I eat in kitchen most of the time.

 

[CODAchild]

When my 2 daughters were younger, we all sat at the dinner table, each had our assigned seat. We would say grace before dinner. Now, they are both grown up, the oldest daughter has moved away, the youngest in away in college. We have a foster son, we still sit together, and in our same assigned seats, we do say grace once in awhile. We need to do that more.

 

[Liebling:-)))]

We eat together on dinner table in kitchen or dining room with NO TV.

TV during eat/dinner/snack time are not acceptance in my house rule. They can watch after finish their meal time.

 

[darkangel8603]

I used to sit at the idnner table with my family til iw as like 12 yrs old, my mom got new job with so many different shifts, my brother was in his rebellious teen years, and i was attending school and live in residence most of the year. So eventually it faded, but still do it for birthdays, thanksgiving, easter supper,

 

[kuifje75]

When I was growing up, I would sit down at the dining table with my family all the time. We all had our regular seats. Dad would sit closest to the door. Mum would sit on the opposite side from dad. My sister and I would sit on one side, with me being next to dad.

We always had to have milk with our meals when we were growing up. No exceptions. We were forced to eat our dinner, and to finish our milk. Whenever we finished dinner, we would clap our hands as to applaud each other for finishing the meal in full. Funny memories I have!

Right now, my SO and I usually sit at the kitchen island counter to eat dinner, which has stools and all. Sometimes my SO leaves the TV on, but I rarely watch TV anyhow. I like to talk at the dinner table though, and we sometimes do that.

 

[ravensteve1961]

We eat together on dinner table in kitchen or dining room with NO TV.

TV during eat/dinner/snack time are not acceptance in my house rule. They can watch after finish their meal time.

Liebling thats socialism! You should eat in front of TV.How youre gonna keep up with news and current events? I bet 90% of america had a TV in the dinning room during the cuban missle crises.Because you never kinow when all the sudden those russians decided to fire the missles.

 

[kuifje75]

That's not socialism. You sure are warped. It is a time for the family only, not for tv. :tsch: :tsch:!!!

If you think that families who do not have TVs in their dining rooms are socialists, then I guess almost many families in Utah are socialists. SMH

 

[ravensteve1961]

If you think that families who do not have TVs in their dining rooms are socialists, then I guess almost many families in Utah are socialists. SMH

Then explan why Michael Dukakis ,Bill Clinton,Al Gore and John Kerry won Utah?

 

[kuifje75]

FYI, John Kerry DID NOT win Utah. Utah was a predominantly BUSH state.
Utah is one of the most die-hard Republican state you can find. If you had bothered looking in your own signature, you would see that Utah was mostly red. Oh, again, maybe you do not even know where Utah is.

 

[ravensteve1961]

Well its Nevada mostly red not utah.

 

[kuifje75]

Still, your statement on post number 50 was incorrect.
Just because Nevada was more red than Utah means squat.

1988 Presidential Elections, Bush won Utah, not Dukasis:
http://www.presidentelect.org/e1988.html#state

1992 Presidential Elections, Bush won Utah, not Clinton:
http://uselectionatlas.org/USPRESIDENT/state.php?year=1992&fips=49&f=1

1996 Presidential Elections, Dole won Utah, not Clinton:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/UTpres.html

2000 Presidential Elections, Bush won Utah, not Gore:
http://www.fec.gov/pubrec/fe2000/2000presge.htm#UT

2004 Presidential Elections, Bush won Utah, not Kerry:
And if you looked in the map, its mostly red.
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/states/UT/P/00/

 

[ravensteve1961]

Ok YOU WIN!!!!

Im Dead.

 

[Reba]

I'll be darn, nobody are doing grace before meal. :|

We say grace before every meal because we are thankful for every meal, every day.

 

[Reba]

in public? No thank!

We say grace in public. Why not? We are thankful for every meal, and we are not ashamed of God. We do not limit our thankfulness to private home times. We do not pray in a noisey way but just our normal way.

 

[Reba]

I have never been in home in the Northeastern part of the US (where I live) and seen anyone say grace before a meal. It must not part of our regional culture.

We eat with friends and family in CT, and they say grace, too.

 

[Reba]

But theyre never gonna allow you say grace in a public school. But they allow grace at notre dame university.

Students can say grace in public school, as individuals or in small groups, voluntarily.

 

[Reba]

...We always had to have milk with our meals when we were growing up. No exceptions. ..

Yes, our family was the same way. Grown ups and kids, all drank milk with the meals.

 

[HoneyShot]

Grace after meals here.

We eat together at the dining table, no TV during mealtime, that's family time.