Parents Claim This Dinner Time Switch Is Life-Changing!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
This is a story that speaks to me. I don't
have kids, but maybe I'll reconsider after this story.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Well, you don't have to have them to eat at
this time.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
How do you know we heard the last story.

Speaker 3 (00:12):
Well this is actually related to kids a little bit.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yeah, with all due respect, Tanya, let's just need to
tell the story and then we can judge. Okay, So
you're saying that more more families, more families with kids,
with kids are having dinner really early, and it's a
good thing.

Speaker 3 (00:26):
It is a really good thing, because the struggle as
a parent when you sit down for dinner is having
them finish their dinner, you know.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
And by the way, I spent summer with my niece
the summer, Yeah, the things I had to I had
to dress up as a magician to get her to
sit and eat a bowl of posta.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
And there's a lot of compromise, you know, it's like
two more bites and you can have a little bit
of a cookie after. Everything is like a compromise with them, right,
But they were figuring out that it's maybe because they
weren't actually truly that hungry by the time you sat
down for dinner. Let's say, like I considered us early
five point thirty six o'clock dinner. I thought that was
on the early, but now with this new trend, it's
not the case. Parents are trying to ring that dinner

(01:04):
bell way earlier and it's basically right when they get
home from school. So the kids get home from school
and they're starving. My kids as soon as they walk
in the door, they always want a snack. They always
want something. I'm always like, okay, well, and if it's
too close, if we're past four pm, then I'm like,
now you can't have a big snacket. Wait, you gotta wait.
And it's just like a battle every single day. So
instead of doing that snack, parents are saying, do dinner

(01:27):
at three forty five, do dinner at four pm, four thirty.
Have that be the big, healthy, nutritious meal where you're
giving them vegetables and things like that, and then afterwards,
if they're kind of still hungry around six six thirty,
you can they can have a snack. Then.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
I love it.

Speaker 1 (01:41):
It is true because I remember I came as I've
told you before, I would come home from school absolutely famished,
like starving. Yeah, I would take the Coca Cola three
liter bottle. Oh my gosh, remember the big one there bottle.
Drink it out of the bottle.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Oh, how do you even care?

Speaker 1 (01:59):
That's big? Back then, then I would make that cookie
sheet of nachos to watch Oprah, but like Coca cola
and nachos to watch Oprah which was on at three,
three thirty four whatever. Then I would have dinner, which
was why I think I was husky when I was growing.

Speaker 3 (02:15):
But we didn't know it in the eighties and nineties.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
But I was so hungry.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
I was a child, and I'm famished at three PM,
like that's when my alarm goes off. I'm trying to
eat my big meal around five. If I could rode
up to four, I would.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
You know.

Speaker 1 (02:29):
I I advocate the early meal. And you know I
always invite friends to have dinner and they don't come.
But and I stand outside of restaurants and wait for
remember the Pacha pictures that we have standing outside the restaurant,
I was waiting. The valet was there, but I was waiting.
No one would let me in till five. If I
had a three forty five, I think it would be

(02:50):
too early for me as a as an active adult,
I would have to eat again again. So if I
can eat till five, which I try to do when
I can, that works and I like that, and you
have such so you have so much more of an
evening with your kids.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
That's true because as soon as we do dinnertime and
it's you know, six o'clock, let's say six thirty, then it's.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
Like two year to take the bath. Yeah, read the book.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
It's oh, it's bedtime right after after we eat, and
they're like, what, there's no, we can't watch anything on TV. No, no,
But it's kind of tough if you're trying to do
this at four pm, three three forty five, because if
you have a spouse that's working, if you have a job,
Michael would be so sad like to miss dinner every
single night with his family. Yeah, you know, so it's
kind of like.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
It's an interesting thing to keep them from snacking. All right,
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