Re: Homework (poll)

In article <1127946588.868663.179950@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Mili" <mytilig@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am so surprised at how early peoples dinner times are here.
> Here is the routine in my house on weekdays..
> I pick up DS(2 and half year old) from daycare around 5.30pm, reach
> home by 6.
> He will be starving in daycare all day, so the first thing is I give
> him a snack.
> I start cooking around 7 and dinner is ready around 8 or 8.30. Husband
> comes home by then, we eat dinner around 9 (DS is not hungry until then
> because he had the snack) and DS goes to bed by 10.
> I don't know any other way to do this, because I have a 9-5 job and
> there is noone to keep dinner ready when I arrive home!
>
> Mornings I leave by 8.30, DS wakes by 9 and DH drops him by 10.30
>
> Guess all these habits have to change when DS startes preschool....
>

Not necessarily. You might need to move dinner up a little -- to, say,
8:00 -- if a 10:00 bedtime is too late, but dinner at our house has
always been on the later-than-most-people side, too. Drives Dad nuts
when he's visiting: he exptects dinner around 6:00, but since I can't
count on DH being home that early, I never planned dinner until at least
7:00. These days, it may well be as late as 9:00.

For me, having the entire family sit down together was too important to
try to have dinner early; if the kids needed a snack earlier, than they
got one -- but dinner was later in the evening than most folks seemed to
eat.

(You might want to get well acquainted with slow cooking, however; it
does make eating sooner after you get home easier.)
--
Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care

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