If you eat dinner as a family in the evening, what time is it?

If its later than 6pm, then bathtime, bottletime and subsequently bedtime becomes too late..... Just wondering what time everyone else does dinner....

 

6:15pm - DH gets home shortly after 6, changes clothes, and we sit down. Bedtime is anywhere from 7:30-8:00pm.

 

Between 5-6 pm, but usually closer to 5. My dh gets home around 4 so it depends on how long it takes to cook it or if something else is going on. Bed time for my son is 7, my girls is 8. If we are at my parents house we eat closer to 6 so my son doesn't end up going to bed until after 7:30. My kids are used to eating early so if we don't eat closer to 5 then we have to give them a snack. Also like you said if we eat closer to 6 my sons bedtime gets pushed back because with everything going on and they like to play with daddy right after dinner.

 

I shoot for 5:45 -6:00 . . . try for the earlier side on bath nights, and we still barely manage to bring the kids up stairs by 8:15 for bed. We do bath, video, bed. But this is also the only time of day they see their father, so I don't want to move bed time any earlier (and this way they don't get up until around 8:00, so that's less time that I'm on my own with them in the morning).

-Rachel

 

I try for 6 PM. My husband gets home between 5:45 and 6. We all sit down for dinner together every night.

 

Right around 5. The babies eat lunch early, snack early, so they can't wait much longer than 5. My older kids eat lunch at school early also.

 

It depends on if we're eating leftovers or I'm cooking, but usually we'll be at the table at 5:30 - 6:00.

 

We eat at the latest 5pm. My hubby gets home b/w 4:30 and 5 and the twinkies are past ready to eat at that point (they eat an early lunch to get a decent nap in before I have to get my oldest from school).

 

I get home by 5:34 and the girls and I usually eat around 6:15. DH doesn't get home until close to 7 most nights (commutes into NYC), so it's too late for us all to eat together.

 

We generally eat around 5 when DH walks in the door because he usually has a small job, estimate or when the season is for activities kicks in...one of us runs them and the rat race begins!

 

Between 5 - 6. Usually closer to 5 though.

 

I wish we could do the family dinner each night but we do ours on the weekends. My husband commutes to Chicago and does not get home until 7 pm. So, it is just us having dinner at the table with their high chair pulled in at 5:45/6 PM. Their bed time is 7:30 to 8:00 PM.

Diana w/Rianna and Justin

 

Thank you everyone for your input.

 

We don't get home until after 6:00 so we eat anytime between about 6:45-7:30 depending on the time it takes to prepare the meal. They go to bed at 8 so on shower nights I make a meal that takes less time to prepare so we can eat closer to the 6:45 side and allow enough time.

 

We eat dinner as a family at 5:30. Emilie and Trevor go to bed at 7:30.

 

By 5pm they usually start asking at 4, then bath, snack and bed at 7.

 

Usually between 7 and 7:30 (depending on what we do for dinner). My DH does not get home until around 6:30, and we eat together.

 

We aim for 5:45 (pretty much the instant that we all walk in the door from work and daycare), but it's often more like 6:00. On weekends they can make it a little later because they have a longer nap and therefore a later snack.

We don't do a bath every night. They're usually done with dinner by 6:30 (earlier if they weren't interested in eating). We can get them changed and in their PJs by 6:40, then we do bedtime stories, teeth brushing, and in bed by 7ish.

 

btwn 5-6 everynight

 

We do it right around 6pm.

 

We eat at 5.