Mealtime Rules Quotes

Do all your eating at a table.

Smacking or chewing really loud and obnoxiously at dinner is a no-no. You know, if we're eating tacos, and I know we gotta use our hands, but if it gets all over your face, it's not sexy to me. That's not a good look.

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is permissible to read the paper.

I have but one rule at my table. You may leave your cabbage, but you'll sit still and behave until I've eaten mine.

The atmosphere [in the school lunchroom] is not quite that of a prison, because the students are permitted to talk quietly, under the frowning scrutiny of teachers standing around on duty, during their meal-they are not supposed to talk while standing in line, though this rule is only sporadically enforced.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

I tell my kids no television and no cellphones at the table.

Most kids will not volunteer to eat veggies. At times you must step up to the plate and enforce the rule of authority as a parent.