Dinner times at grandparents'

[applestrudels]

If you had very young grandchildren (under 5), who usually ate dinner at 5pm, whereas you normally ate dinner between 8 and 9pm, and then you invited your grandchildren, along with their parents, to stay at your house for a few days, would you try and make the children's dinner at 5pm, or would you stick to your normal routine of dinner anywhere between 8 and 9pm, or would you compromise (so, 6 or 7pm)?

YANBU: I would try and make dinner earlier, at least for the children
YABU: My house, my rules. Dinner is at MY usual time.

Miss Marple 87. Totally agree 👍

I think I'd be making tea for my kids at 5:00pm and eating with the adults at 9pm

Not for my kids. Always hungry as soon as they got home from school and I’d start cooking at 4pm/4.10pm so they were eating by 5pm.

Now they are 17 & 18 they eat any time up to 9pm but if I offer dinner at 5pm they’d say say yes. They’d snack up until 9pm aswell

Yes I would, as my kids at that age would probably have dinner at 5ishand be in bed at 7pm. For me personally that is too late for young kids to eat. But everyone lives their lives to suit their needs.

If a compromise can't be reached, perhaps have the main meal at lunchtime and everyone has a lighter dinner at the time they want.

Many people in Europe. Not abnormal at all.

Under 8yrs of age mine were in bed by 7, so to keep them up to eat at 8pm I'd have been fuming!

We're a weird family: DC eat around 6-7 pm, me afterwards, DH 9 pm..

We're abnormal, we eat anywhere between 8-10pm. Just whenever it's ready.

I wonder why ppl are so hung up on eating times. If my kids are hungry I'll feed them, we still all sit together and talk about the day. If dh or I are not hungry then, we'll eat later.

I don't expect anyone to change their routine because of us.
Surely there's a workaround.