Just posting for perspective as would like to hear other people’s opinions on this.
I have a 10 and and 7 year old.
There father is very hot on table manners - which are important to me also. Every dinner time he will correct all table manners - this is the list:
- Sit nicely
- Use knife and fork
- Eat over plate - no crumbs can be made - this can wind up dad.
- Use napkin
- No getting up from the table.
- If too slow, focus drawn back to food repetitively.
All these rules are valuable I know but sometimes I feel like the children literally cannot brief with the stiffness of mealtimes. Is it wrong of me to find the constant point out of errors oppressive? I really hate mealtimes as a family and feel the children have to behave a certain way to stop my husband getting wound up.
My husband is incrediably intelligent, a good and kind man and a lovely, giving father but likes everything done a certain way.