Do you sit together as a family

We hardly ever watch TV as a family, if we have a movie afternoon DH will either not be in the room or is on his phone so not engaging.

I watch tv with my 12 year old most nights after younger DD is in bed, while DH is in another room working or watching sport.

We usually sit in the same room on a Friday and Saturday evening though. Usually talking and sometimes playing cards / listening to music etc

For meals, yes. Outside of that? We work hard to make sure we’re both having engaged time with all our DC each week but not necessarily the whole family together. We do family night once a month and the DC take turns picking activities. And DH and I usually have one or two shows we’re watching together at a time, maybe 1-2 episodes per week after younger DC are in bed.

But everyone sitting in the same room distracted on their phones or whatnot would be extremely low priority and I’m probably the first to leave because I genuinely need alone time on a level DH doesn’t, and I don’t find everyone just being in a room particularly valuable.

Here’s the exception: with very small children, having one parent who is by default there and available during unstructured down-time and one that always goes off and hides usually creates an imbalance in workload. It’s fair that both parents get time to go off by themselves and that both are spending time “on shift” while small DC are playing independently or whatnot.

DD is now a teenager and seems to never want to sit with us. She will sit with me and occasionally her dad but all in the living room and she moans there's too many in one room.

There's a meme that having a teenager in the house is like having a ghost. Every so often you'll hear a door slam and a moan.

Never. We generally have tea together in the week dependant on shifts but always go our separate ways for the evening. Me H and two older teens.

We have almost 17 year old twins and I would say we sit and watch tv together most evenings. Husband or kids might be out playing sports some evenings but generally, I'm never in front room watching telly on my own and when we're all in, we're mostly all together.

DD15 - most weekdays after school then disappears. Out most of the weekend. DS13 - same & once the other two are in bed (he doesn't sleep as much). DS11 - any minute he isn't on his PS5, loves company! We have dinner together every night & have a movie night every other week

Until they were about 16, most evenings for some of the time. We had a numbr of things we watching together, it was nice.

We still watch things together when they are home.

Probably a couple of times a week, depending on hobbies and jobs but usually at least once as we have a regular film night. Possibly more if a series of something we all like is on. Just me and two older teens.

Much the same here. We will do our own things during the day (older DC) but tend to have dinner at the table together and then sit in the same room in the evening. We might watch tv or a film or might be on phones, iPads, knitting etc. but we're all together.

TV we watch one programme a week together.
we eat dinner together most nights and play board games together

Preschool age kids so not really on the sofa in the evening watching TV but we eat dinner around the table together everyday

We do 'movie night' once a week when we all watch a movie together. We have dinner all together about 3 times a week, but the rest of the week DH has funny shifts and the children have various clubs and activities so we can't all eat together, sadly.

DC r year 6 and year 8.

DH and I always eat dinner together if we are both home then generally agree on where to sit after. It is Summer here at the moment so we generally eat outside and stay out reading/faffing around in iPads etc. until bedtime. If we decided to watch a film we would both go in and watch it. Adult kids at home will usually eat with us if they are in then wander off to do their own thing after (they clean up after dinner). Winter time they are more likely to eat separately from us as DH and I might eat on our laps which watching tv. DD will often join us but DS would prefer to play online games with his friends,

When the DSC were small? Always together. Now the DSC are grown and gone? Still always together. We have the space to be separate but neither of us choose to be.

Me, DH, DS(16) and Ddog currently all sat together in the living room.

I'd say every night at least for a part of it anyway.

I have a 9 year old and a 23 year old. In the week 9 year old and I have breakfast and tea together. Dh eats later after work and dd does her own thing. But we often all hang out in the kitchen/living room between 6-8pm. Once ds is in bed dh and I will read or watch tv together. At a weekend we all eat evening meals together and will often play board games or watch a film together once ds is in bed.

We will all be in the same room most nights, not always watching the same thing, we might be reading or playing on our phone and a few of us watching the same thing.
Occasionally there will be something that everyone will watch.

Yes, for almost every evening meal and weekend lunchtimes. At the weekend we try to find something we will all want to watch- I'd say every few weeks we manage to find a film or series that we all enjoy. We watched Wonka, Enola Holmes and Clockwise together in recent weeks, and really enjoyed Race Across the World - even DH got into it by the end. Now younger DS is a bit older we also like Would I Lie To You.

Mine is the same. It makes me sad, but then i remind myself how independent he is and that makes me happy

3 teens and us manage to eat together about 4 times a week around the table and watch TV altogether very rarely. 4 of us often manage about once or twice a week and DH and I about 3 nights a week.

DD14 will often sit with us and watch a film
or an episode of something - most days after school I would say. DS17 - never sadly. Changed when he got to about 11 or 12. I miss it 😢 We do all eat dinner together about 4x per week so all is not lost. I feel like boys get lost in gaming/sport/gym and are a bit less sociable - or could just be mine 😌.

We eat dinner together every day.

Me, dh and dd (11) sit together a lot in the evenings. Ds (15) tends to stay in his room but will come in to the lounge very occasionally. Dd is starting to skulk off to her room a bit more in the evening, but mostly spends it with us.

Very occasionally we'll watch a film/TV together but with 2 teenagers and a 9 year old with differing tastes this is rare. We'll occasionally play a game together. Most nights we'll eat dinner together.

This has become an argument actually, DP will sit with me and DD in the day when he's off if we don't go out, once it gets to 4/5pm he's off elsewhere in the house. If dd is elsewhere then never