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Do you eat at a table with your family or from a tray watching TV?

Are we, as a society, losing family conversation? Or are we simply sharing something else?

Posted - February 27, 2017

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  • 7776
    I eat by myself in my bedroom. If anyone still eats with their family, good for you and keep it going. This post was edited by Zack at February 28, 2017 9:47 AM MST
      February 27, 2017 8:36 PM MST
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  • That's two out of two for the bedroom. Thanks, Zack.
      February 27, 2017 8:40 PM MST
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  • Do people still have TV trays? lol

    When I lived with my parents, I often ate breakfast and dinner with my family (in high school less, could be only twice a week, but at least once a week). Other times I would eat in my room. I think being an only child I was a bit closer to my parents and conversation between the three of us has always been easy; we didn't have to force it. But if we were busy then eating separately wasn't a problem. 
      February 27, 2017 8:37 PM MST
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  • I didn't even think about eating in different rooms. There's another way of doing it. Clearly it didn't harm your relationship.
      February 27, 2017 8:39 PM MST
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  • Supper at my house was just a time for my father to bellow, rage and BASH the table with his fist and make threatening gestures with a steak knife.
      February 28, 2017 8:52 AM MST
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  • 5614
    Methink this question 30 years late. TV? A tray like in TV dinners? This post was edited by O-uknow at February 27, 2017 10:41 PM MST
      February 27, 2017 8:51 PM MST
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  • Methinks you're probably right, but 30 years ago we didn't have Internet to ask it. :)
      February 27, 2017 8:53 PM MST
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  • 5614
    Aye, indeed my friend. Aye, indeed :)
      February 27, 2017 8:54 PM MST
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  • Nope ... no family.
    Nope ... no TV.

    When I had a family and a TV, we ate at the table ...
     if we were all home/there at the same time. 
               That wasn't very often.
      February 27, 2017 8:52 PM MST
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  • One time, when the kids were all kids, one of the boys was coming back to the table with a cup of coffee filled so full it actually had a meniscus. He was moving very slowly and managing not to spill a drop so I yelled, "DON'T SPILL THAT!" Mrs Didge made me clean up the mess. :(
      February 27, 2017 10:26 PM MST
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  • If you're looking for sympathy, you'll find it in the dictionary. :)
      February 27, 2017 10:38 PM MST
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  •   February 28, 2017 3:06 AM MST
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  • "Meniscus" I had to look that up. It is a tear in the knee's cartilage. I lost now about the coffee.
      February 28, 2017 8:49 AM MST
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  • 32527
    The meniscus is a term used in science:
     meniscus (plural: menisci, from the Greek for "crescent") is the curve in the upper surface of a liquid close to the surface of the container or another object, caused by surface tension. It can be either convex or concave, depending on the liquid and the surface.
      February 28, 2017 9:37 AM MST
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  • Thanks. 
      February 28, 2017 1:17 PM MST
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  • My2cents has given you the information. Here's a link. I'd didn't know about the knee.
      February 28, 2017 1:16 PM MST
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  • 32527
    We try to eat to at the table most nights we probably make it about 3-4 nights weekly. But we almost always say Grace together before the meal. 
    If we eat in the living room we just hold our plates...no trays. 
      February 27, 2017 8:55 PM MST
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  • Sounds good. An American physician named Rachel Remen wrote a book called Kitchen Table Wisdom which tells the kind of stories we used to tell each other when we actually sat at the table and talked. Most of us seem to have gotten away from that these days. 
      February 27, 2017 10:28 PM MST
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  • 2960
    I eat off my iPad.
      February 27, 2017 8:59 PM MST
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  • 5614
    You like those? Devoted to Apple? Is the Ipad your altar? This post was edited by O-uknow at February 27, 2017 10:42 PM MST
      February 27, 2017 9:06 PM MST
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  •   February 27, 2017 10:29 PM MST
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  • 1713
    Neither, I usually eat in my room or in my car.
    I've never been very social anyways. Way back in the ancient times when we ate at the table, I didn't speak unless my parents would ask me something like how school was and I'd just be like "it was okay, I guess." This post was edited by Patchouli at February 28, 2017 9:48 AM MST
      February 27, 2017 11:46 PM MST
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  • I really disliked that question as a child.   It was like asking how  was the chain gang  today in my eyes.
      February 28, 2017 2:27 AM MST
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  • It sounds as though you're the strong, silent type. :)
      February 28, 2017 3:07 AM MST
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