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do your children..

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cheeryface · 11/01/2010 18:50

watch tv whilst eating breakfast?
i know theres more to worry about than that but im not sure its worth enforcing

so, do they ?

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MrsJohnDeere · 12/01/2010 13:52

No tv with meals ever here (for the dcs). All meals at a table (kitchen or dining) and neither are anywhere near a tv. They are allowed a bit of tv after breakfast so that I can shower and dress in peace.

I am a bit of a hypocrite though because I will eat my dinner in front of the tv in the evenings if dh is away. If he's here we (almost) always eat dinner together at a table.

Hulababy · 12/01/2010 13:54

Yes, DD often does. The TV is on in the morning - DH and DD alternate each day. One day DD gets Disney channel, the next DH gets BBC news.

DD is always dressed and washed, ready for school before she has breakfast, The TV doesn't slow her down, etc. If it was causing a problem she wouldn't be allowed.

posieparker · 12/01/2010 13:54

No, we only have a TV in the sitting room. They are allowed to watch TV in the mornings if we have got up really early and everything is done and I wash the floors, they get to look after dc4 whilst the TV is on.

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mii · 12/01/2010 13:55

Yes because we live in a tiny tiny house with no dining room and no room for a dinner table

So they have a little fold out table in the lounge and watch tv whilst eating breakfast, it then gets paused whilst they get changed and when they are washed and changed it goes back on

hannahsaunt · 12/01/2010 13:55

No - I am conducting a covert campaign to indoctrinate them into being faithful listeners of Radio 4 . We do have a TV in the kitchen (it's also a computer monitor) but never on through mealtimes though we are clearly hypocritical in that if eating a deux then dh and I frequently eat not only in front of the TV but in the living room!

OtterInaSkoda · 12/01/2010 14:06

Yes. Ds puts the TV on as soon as he gets downstairs. The dining table is in the sitting room so he sits at that to have a bowl of Nestles Choco Woodshavings porrige.

It seems fair enough really as dp and I are running around like eejits trying to get ourselves ready for work.

VoluptuaGoodshag · 12/01/2010 14:09

Only once they have eaten, brushed their teeth and are dressed may they put the TV on otherwise we'd never get out the door

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