Please enjoy the moment and chat more XD the kids and I used to like the dinnertime conversation (though it was usually extremely difficult to get the boys to shut up so that anyone else could have a turn to speak) but J was extremely against anything other than gobbling down dinner as fast as possible (generational bad habit, apparently his mum used to steal food off their plates when they were kids, it was basically a case of "are you going to eat that" but then she'd grab it before they answered, and apparently never realising she was doing it, and in her case it was growing up dirt poor in a family of 8 or 10 or something like that with not enough food so all the kids were frantically gobbling down their food to avoid it getting stolen and stealing as much food as they were able off neighbouring plates, she said a lot of her childhood memories is just being always hungry).

He's gotten better but while growing up the kids got worse following that early example and then worse again when they were teenagers and not allowed to eat in their rooms so they would just want to scarf down as fast as possible without choking so they could rush back to their games.

_{when they started cleaning up after themselves regularly they were allowed to eat in their rooms if they want which the boys do but middle doesn't}

Now that they're adults and much more mature the big two now want to eat with everyone else (even if it's just hanging out in the same room as me and/or J at the dining table) more often than not.

5 is still a baby! XD

_{I was only slightly off, I thought she might be 3-4 now}

Gonna hit the homeschooling community on here? :D