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In a message dated 2/4/2002 7:58:18 PM Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:


> If it's important to you that the family eat dinner together with the TV
> off, you might ask yourself why. What do you gain from that? Why do you
> feel
> that that's more right than watching TV during dinner?
>
> I am not a believer in the magic of family dinners.

I am. For us. I'm out two or three nights a week and I really like it when
I'm home that we all have some time that we sit together and don't do
anything else. Otherwise, these days, we dont' have a lot of that kind of
time - with two teenagers and me working and so on....

We typically eat dinner together with the tv off. Unless the Simpsons are on.
Or something else we ALL want to watch. Then we watch it and eat together and
that's great too. It doesn't seem to ever be a big deal - the rest of my
family is just happy to have a nice dinner on the table - nobody EVER
complains about coming to eat it together. That would be weird.

--pam



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