Mealtime
Whenever I watch western movies on teevee where the whole family would sit around the dining table to have a proper meal, I felt ashame of myself realising I’ve failed to creat that ambience and what some of them called? The bonding and quality time spent on the dining table.
My 2 elder kiddos age 6 and 4, prefer to have their meal in front of the teevee while the baby age 20months is BANNED!!! from having her meal anywhere near the dining table. I love my Ikea breakfast tray. Kids can use them as a makeshif dining table or a writing table.
Once you’ve started the bad habit, it’s hard to implement again the meal-on-proper-dining-table. If you have not started any of those, better don’t. Bad habit is hard to break.
p/s: And you should think why i’m putting this post under “Joy of Parenthood” category? I need a new category called “Dilemma of Parenthood”.
athena said,
November 4, 2006 @ 1:25 am
your kiddoes are still young. There is hope yet. Implement it at least during the weekends first la!!!!!
The Queen says: On some weekends, I purposely wear them out at the playground and drag their meal time.  You should see the way they chomp down their dinner. But still…. BABY IS BANNED FROM THE DINING TABLE!!!
Lil' Joy said,
November 4, 2006 @ 1:49 am
we eat in front of the tele too *bows head in shame*
But hey, that’s still bonding what!
wuching said,
November 4, 2006 @ 2:49 am
dining in front of the telly is bad but sadly i do it too! we need to change!
The Queen says: Sad to hear this from you. Hey, I thought angmoh (staying there also considered angmoh, make it half angmoh liao) ppl very discipline wan? Â
Allan(no breakfast,no lunch only dinner)success in 3 days liao... said,
November 4, 2006 @ 5:07 am
Try to find those time that have no good programmes in the tv then have dinner lor hahaha~sometimes i will more focus the food more then the tv,bcos i eatting fish with alot of bone haha~
The Queen says:Â You tell me at what time Channel 63 has no good programmes. *ngek
Dakota said,
November 4, 2006 @ 5:11 am
Thank you for the comment~
ha, interesting to see someone “likes” the dead bird picture.
A lot of people emailed me and told me that I’m disgusting~
Glad you like it though ^^
Dakota said,
November 4, 2006 @ 5:14 am
Oh hey, I didn’t realize they have to wash toilet~ oh well… guess every good thing come with bad thing and every bad thing come witha good thing ^^
Want to attend uni first, degree in media arts / covers thing like photography etc etc… just for future change or choice 🙂
JC said,
November 4, 2006 @ 10:19 am
I don’t bond very well with TVs… But I’m superglued to the computer… hehehe
Better change while they still listen to you… 😉
oddfather said,
November 4, 2006 @ 12:03 pm
As the saying goes…..like father/mother, like children. So kena whack you first before can discipline the children.
Bernard said,
November 5, 2006 @ 12:18 am
My kiddo will pull a sour face if he get’s pulled from his favourite TV show for dinner… i used to take dinner watching Flash Gordon 🙂
jazzmint said,
November 7, 2006 @ 3:21 am
oh I have that too..used that before giving birth to faythe..now i dunno where liao
Simple American said,
November 7, 2006 @ 5:18 am
You da momma. You have the remote control. You can put em back at the table. They will cry. Shout Act like the world is over. And then after they adjust you can have a conversation over dinner.
It is a painful transition. Cuz I grew up watching telly over dinner. Now I rarely allow this in my home.
sila said,
November 7, 2006 @ 9:50 pm
since my parents are here, vin and i also have to eat like normal people at the table. not in front of the telly like we usually do if it’s the 2 of us. but hopefully when we have kids we’ll try to make them eat at the table and not at the telly! 🙂 (Hopefully lah…)