Tomorrow is Thanksgiving - the Super Bowl of family meals. If you have a combination of adults and kids, especially kids of differing ages, where is everyone sitting? Are you a fan of one big, happy table? An adult table and a kids' table? Multiple tables with a mix of adults and kids? Haven't decided yet? Weight in below!
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Comments (6)
We will have only one kid (out of 18 guests), so a kid's table seems rather cruel... Also won't be doing a disfavored in-law table this year - one table to rule them all, one table to bind them! Or something like that...
I am all about the integrated table. I've always been put at the "kids" table. Even to this day my husband and I (we are 25) are usually the youngest adults at family functions so we are forced into the kids table since there isn't enough room at the adult table. We don't usually mind because we love our younger family very much, but it is frustrating to still be seen as kids and I know its frustrating for the kids themselves as well. If there has been one thing I've learned from being at that table for so long it's that the kids want to enjoy all the company just as much as the adults do.
When I was a kid we sat at a kids table. I would say that lasted well into my high school years until one of my cousins had a baby of her own. The kids in the next-gen refuse to be left out, so now it's a free-for-all with seating, at any table, on any couch, next to anyone. I like it.
For the longest time there was an adults table and kids table. I was stuck at the kids table for so long that we all would joke about who would go next so that I could move up.
Then my beloved grandma died.
We have had one big, long table for everyone ever since.
I have different memories of the kids' table at my grandparents' house. It was so much fun to spend that time with all of my cousins, whom I didn't get to see often since we lived states away. We could goof off and giggle more, eating food in freedom. I loved it!
Tomorrow, there will be an adult table in the dining room, a kid table right next to the dining room in the hallway and dogs gnawing on rawhides in the corner. Adults will eat off of my favorite Eva Zeisel plates (wedding gifts from the adults attending) and kids from plastic. Not so creative, but I think it'll be fun.
:)
I always seat the kids next to their parents rather than on a separate table - its so much easier for the adults to then keep discipline and help them with their food if need be rather than jumping up and down from the main table