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> [1] I'm subbing in "distraction" for "device", my kids have brought non-powered distractions to the table before. This is a good point. I remember my mom get
by sndean 9y ago
> [1] I'm subbing in "distraction" for "device", my kids have brought non-powered distractions to the table before.
This is a good point. I remember my mom getting mad when I'd bring a book to the table (c. 1995). If it's not a phone, it's something else.
- OJFord 9y agoI do think you might talk to me, Charles. I've had a very exhausting day! Take me out of myself!
- flukus 9y agoSame for me, a book or a gameboy at the dinner table would result in a clip around the ears. My parents weren't strict in the slightest, but dinner time was the 10-20 minutes where we all sat down together as a family and put up with mums political views.
- NoGravitas 9y agoMy elder child frequently tries to bring a novel to the dinner table, as I'm sure I did at their age. But we don't allow it. Of course, the image of the paterfamilias at the breakfast table with his nose in the newspaper, ignoring his family, was a constant in the 19th and 20th centuries.