This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen.
I chose to stay close with my family and my parents and my brother.
When I was growing up, we always had a big family dinner at around noon on Sunday. I still love that whenever it is possible to gather the family together.
My mum, Kathy, works as a GP and my dad, Mark, was a high school maths teacher. He now manages mum's practice and is also my cricket coach. We are a close-knit family.
I never wanted to be away from the family. Intuitively, I knew how easily distances could harden and become permanent.
We had two children, who are still adored, they adore me and we're very close. Rayne was 20 years older than me. He died when he was 80, so he had a really good life.
I've got two older sisters who I'm very close to. And my son's grown up with a big sense of family around him.
My mom and I are very close.
I'm very close with my family, so my mom is part of my entourage.
Whenever we were on a plane, we had a family.
I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
My family always ate dinner at the table, and we would chat about our day while eating. My parents like to have a few glasses of wine and linger after the meal is over, peeling oranges for dessert while talking. It's lovely.
I have a great relationship with my kids. We're very honest with each other, and I'm very proud that we are absolutely, incredibly close. That to me is more important than anything.
If you know me, you know my parents mean everything to me. I love them so much and am very close to them.
I am quite close to my mother. In fact, I speak to her every day.
As my brother and I get older and busier, I really cherish the time we spend together.
Many people don't have relationships to their siblings in adulthood, or they have superficial ones. It's sort of unfashionable, particularly in America, to be close to your family.
My sister lives in London, and I'm extremely close to her and her daughter.
I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family.
My immediate family is real close-knit.
If I can't go to my parents, then my parents come to me.
It's great working with my sister, because we are very close as a family - my brother, my sister and myself. We have a great relationship.
I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.
In Brazil, you are very close to your family; we saw our cousins every weekend, and my grandmother lived with us.
I think the ideal situation for a family is to be completely incestuous.
