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Nope, I didn't get a lot of screen time.

We did and we didn't. We ate dinner together as a family every night but we usually had our tiny kitchen tv turned on to the news in the background but it wasn't like we were all sat in front of it like zombies. This was more towards later grade school (in the earlier days it was not on) and beyond and I remember learning an awful lot about the world as a result of having the world news on every night.

That being said, for our little family, we will probably not have the tv on during dinner very often, and if it is on, only to the news.

Never.

No, never. Until I left for college we always ate dinner together as a family.

I think I remember once, maybe twice when mom was out at aerobics or something when dad pulled the table out so we could eat and watch tv, but that was a very rare occasion.

If something huge was going on in the world then the news would be on. Otherwise never. We ate every night at the table, as a family.

Nope, TV was shut off most of the time during supper.

Never. I honestly don't think I ever ate dinner in front of the TV until I was in college.

Nope...we all had to sit at the table and there was no tv in the kitchen.

generally if my mom or dad cooked (which is what happened most days) we would sit in the dining room, so no TV. But there was one night a week that there were a couple of shows on that we would watch as a family, and my mom would order pizza or let us have TV dinners, and we would all eat in the living room - it was super exciting as a kid!

Yes, we ate dinner as a family, and the tv was usually on the evening news.

@lemondrop: Ditto!

I grew up watching Peter Jennings at dinner We ate at the dinner table as a familyevery night, and the news was always on a small TV in the corner.

Never, always at the dining room table with the tv OFF. My parents were firm about this rule... but I know they eat dinner in front of the tv all the time now, according to my sister who still lives at home, haha.

DH and I plan to do the same one day (although currently, we eat with the tv on every single day, albeit at the dining table)

When I was little we had an open concept living area and you could see the TV from the kitchen table. I remember getting yelled at for turning around to look at the TV behind us. Then when I was a teenager, we moved and that house didn't have the living room within sight of the dining table. Now we eat with LO and no TV, but if she's in bed already, then DH and I eat in front of the TV.

Never. We were allowed to watch jeopardy while my parents cooked but as soon as it was over we had to shut the tv off. I was allowed to see what dress vanna white was wearing on wheel of fortune but the second she walked across the stage the tv was OFF haha! One of the silliest things I loved as a kid.