ok how do you synchronize mealtimes?

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DS is 14mo. Breakfast and lunch aren't such a problem, but he currently has tea 4.30pm. We eat our tea 6pm-ish (sometimes once DS has gone to bed). No way we can eat earlier as I work p/t and DH doesn't get home till 5.30pm earliest.

At what stage do they manage to go for longer so we can all eat tea together?

Mine are 8&10 and we still can't

My 2 are 18mo and nearly 4 and they still couldn't last until 6 on a regular basis. Could you give him a snack (teacake/banana/maltloaf/apple & milk etc.) at 3.30/4 ish then eat at 6?

Mine have milk and fruit at three ish then dinner at 5.15/30. They then just have milk before bed at 6.30/7.

It really depends if you're happy to make his bedtime later.

ah well, maybe I won't worry about it so much at the moment then. - I have one of these friends who is the perfect mummy, all the family were eating all their meals together from the early days and I just wondered if I was doing anything wrong! thanks both.

we only all eat together at weekends as dh doesnt get home till 7pm most nights. I eat breakfast and lunch with the 2 kids (4yrs and 18 months)and they eat together around 5pm. I eat with dh around 8pm or sometimes even later.

I wouldn't owrry about it tbh. It will all come together soon enough. DS2 used to have his tea t 4pm and then a nap while the older two ate between 4.30-5pm. DH isn't home until 6.30 so we eat after the kids are in bed.

Baby can still join you at the table. Sit them in the high chair with some toys. Family time still.

BTW Your friend IS NOT the perfect Mummy. No one is!

Weekdays DS (3 yrs old) has dinner at about 5.30pm. We don't eat until after 7pm, usually closer to 8pm.

At weekends, we sometimes let him have his evening meal with us and stay up a bit later or we have a big lunch on Sunday which he joins in with. It's nice to have the social aspect of meals together at weekends, but not practical during the week, and I can't see us all having meals together in the evening until much later on down the line.