Meals together (or not?)

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So I live with my two teens, DP lives with his. All our dc are 14-17. In my house it’s fluid, dc make their own lunch on weekends/hols and we often eat only our evening meal together, sometimes not even that. Depending on who is where etc. They’ll wash up if I ask.

In DP’s house all meals are eaten together and he does the lot, prepares and clears up and washes up. He complains about the relentlessness.

Just musing on this (and wondering if I am just really slack).

What do others do?

Today, I've been at work. My two, 17 and 19, got their own lunches, my son cooked dinner, (having gone shopping for ingredients) we all ate together round the table, had a lovely catch up about our days, and then my daughter washed up.
That is typical for most days, I want them to be independent young adults, and having them involved in meals is a big step in that process.

Very rare we eat lunch together,

We try to eat a few evening meals together in a week but it doesn’t always work with regular commitments or last minute changes of plan, oh i’m Going to whoever’s house or can whoever come round etc.

If we particularly want to all eat together we tend to put it on a family chat group ‘family meal x day’ then they know they are expected for it and we stick to that.

i eat with my 2 teen ds's every evening. I cook and they just about clear everything up.

I look forward to it. Its no phones and actual conversation.

Yes lunch they sort themselves, tonight DH is cooking, I will tomorrow. Kids help out or sometimes cook but it is mostly us as parents who cook.

Ah, thanks for these, perhaps am not that slack.. keep ‘em coming.

Eat together every evening - feel quite strongly about this, at weekends often someone will cook brunch - us or the kids but it's quite unplanned, nothing firm - although dd is fed up with sleeping through brunch so we have orders to wake her up if we are eating.