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Originally Posted by crich70
I read in public. No embarrassment here. I understand that Stephen Hawking's family were known for each person having a book at the dinner table. A reader can read anywhere.  |
So they were the early versions of the "smartphone family." My "step-mom" (my dad's wife after I had grown up and gone, so not really a "mom") came from a big Norwegian family in North Dakota. They didn't talk at the dinner table (which, I guess, is common among Norwegians). They would sit down and her dad would say, "Let's get this misery over with," and they would eat in silence. That was it.
Personally I think the dinner table should be a place to "catch up" with the family.