Does your father / husband sit at the head of the table?

[Orchidgal]

Wondering how common it still is for the male ‘head of the household’ to sit at the head of the table.

YANBU= yes he does
YABU = no (or sometimes / not deliberately)

No lol, what a weird thought!

Yes, dh sits at the head of the table. That is because it is nearest to the kitchen and he does all the cooking.

We sit at the long sides . We both sit at the end that's easier to get in and out of for the kitchen. Growing up, the table was oval so no "head" there either.

No. Because we have an equi-table seating arrangement.

Nope. I do.

I'm a heathen and hate sitting at the table so I'm usually found on the sofa.

If I do sit at the table (high days and holidays) then I sit closest to the kitchen as I do the cooking (and have to run out half way through the meal for something I've forgotten!) DH/DC sit anywhere other than my seat. There's nothing conscious about it and no set seating.

Thank God I live in a house where me and my kids wouldn’t even have thought this misogynistic bullshit was a thing.

Well, our dining table is round, so all very democratic there.

Our kitchen table does have dh and I at either end, because historically we were bigger than the dc so had the ends which give you a bit more room than 2 people sitting next to one another on
the sides, so the dc - being smaller - sat there.
No idea how to tell which end is the 'head' though.

We have a round table.

Nope. We sit two on each side. We do always sit in the same places though!

Large rectangular table, DH and DD sit one side, me and DS the other… at Xmas he might sit at one end nearest Kitchen because he cooks the Xmas Dinner!

DS3 sits at the head of the table in this house. It’s where his chair is, so that’s where he goes. It’s the most convenient place for him really.

Otherwise no one would be at the head of the table. .

Not normally. Ironically he does it there are guests because that's the shittist chair location. Poor bloke.

😂😂😂 Smart boy.

There isn’t a ‘head’ of our oval table. ;

Yes

Table is round & we all sit wherever. Growing up we sat at a square table and always had our own places but there was definitely no “head” of the table

Nope what with it not being the 1900's and all that.

No, DC2 does. Not sure why, that's just how it's ended up.

DH is made to sit in the crappy corner that's a bit hard to get to. He doesn't mind though

No, usually husband and daughter sit on the side and me and son sit at the ends but not always the same end. If it's two or three of us I'll sit at the side but again not always in the same location. We don't have designated spots. The ends are probably the least roomy spots so not especially desirable! We do tend to sit in the same spots in the living room but it's just personal preference not a hierarchy. At home my mum sat at one end. Dad sat on one side and my sister and I in the other side, no one at the other end and I've no idea why. My dad did refer to himself as head of the household though and that annoyed me even as a child.

We both sit at either end with the kids in the middle. His seat also happens to be closest to the kitchen as he's the cook!

My mother would as she carved/served the food from there. I think my dad might of at Christmas.
My husband was the cook so when entertaining in the dining room he sat at the head, on family dinners one of the kids did as that's the way it worked out with the layout.

YABU. No he doesn't. We have 5 in our family. Youngest DC sits at the head, or possibly 'tail' of the table.

If they sit in the dinning room to eat my dad is head of the table. If they eat in the kitchen my mum is

In our house we don't have assigned seats so it varies who is head of the table

Our table is round. I have always had round tables find them much more sociable.