Did you have a "kid" table at Thanksgiving?

[curtains]

When you were growing up?  Did you like it? 

Would you have one if you were/are hosting Thanksgiving?

TIA!!

[discogranny]

I still have to sit at the kid table when my family gets together and I am 27. It was fine when I was a kid and is okay now as my cousins and their spouses are there too. We've got some serious longevity in our family.

[BlackCanary]

When we used to go to my grandma's house we did. 

[speckledfrog]

We did, depending on who was hosting. I didn't like it once I got into college since I am the oldest of my cousins.

[Yankees21]

We still do on my mom's side There are 14 grandkids, so we all sit together, and then the "real" adults sit together. I really like it.

[mnirishgirl]

On my Dad's side we didn't. I liked that because it was a big gathering and I really preferred to sit with my own family (lots of people I only saw a few times a year and a few I really didn't want to get stuck sitting next to). On my Mom's side we did. I liked that when I was a kid and had fun with my cousins. When I got to be a teenager it started to feel more like I was being used as a free babysitter for my much younger (and poorly behaved) cousins. I'd be stuck dealing with them while their parents were busy eating and having a good time in the other room. So, I guess, I'd let people choose where to sit. If kids choose to sit together, great! If they choose to sit near their parents, that'd be ok too.

[bonquiqui]

When we went to my grandparent's house (dad's parents) we did.  At my other grandparents house, it was just my brother and I, so no.  lol  I liked the kid table, because grown ups were boring 

[bonquiqui]

Oh, and now, there are no kids in the family, so the kid table would be vacant and lonely lol

[flutterfly]

We did only because my family was so big we didn't have room. My poor brother was 25 before he was upgraded to the adult table.

[Deleted]

Yup! It was fun sitting with all my cousins at Thanksgiving. The dining table was for the adults. Turns out, the only way to get to the "grown up" table is for someone to die, or get divorced.

[lime]

Generally, yes, but it depended on who was hosting. We had a large, Catholic family, so there were always lots of cousins.

I liked it when I was younger. About 12 or so and it became a burden. LOL

Sometimes, logistically, it has to be that way.

[mnirishgirl]

Nov 6, 2013 17:23:53 GMT -5 lime said:

Generally, yes, but it depended on who was hosting. We had a large, Catholic family, so there were always lots of cousins.

I liked it when I was younger. About 12 or so and it became a burden. LOL

Sometimes, logistically, it has to be that way.

Ours was a big Catholic family situation too

[flex]

I did growing up at my grandparent's house (on my mom's side). They had 9 kids and I have oodles of cousins in my age group. we had a ball at the kid's table.

I've done a kid's table once before I married DH. I had a Thanksgiving dinner at my house and I had the boys sit at a separate table. It was kind of nice, but my then soon-to-be-SS didn't like it much. lol

[ckinla]

Nope. There were 6 kids and we all sat at the same table as the adults.

[jane6672]

No.

Thanksgiving tradition (determined by me and my sisters), is that EVERYONE must sit at one table.

Some years we had 3 tables put together.

[EmilieMadison]

Yes, and there is still a kids table. But its for the actual kids. When there were no kids and just young adults, it was just two tables where anyone sat anywhere.

[wambam]

Yes.

No, unless I had to because of space considerations.

[curtains]

Nov 6, 2013 17:27:30 GMT -5 flex said:

I did growing up at my grandparent's house (on my mom's side). They had 9 kids and I have oodles of cousins in my age group. we had a ball at the kid's table.

I've done a kid's table once before I married DH. I had a Thanksgiving dinner at my house and I had the boys sit at a separate table. It was kind of nice, but my then soon-to-be-SS didn't like it much. lol

Why didnt ss like it? I am hoping to include step kids and I want everyone to enjoy themselves. (High hopes huh?)

[whattheheck]

We don't do one for Thanksgiving but what we do at some other gatherings is we put the middle generation at one table and the oldest and youngest at another table so the grandparents sit with the grandchildren and the parents get to all sit together and catch up kid free. Everyone loves it.

[UMaineTeach]

we did, it was fun.
but there wasn't exactly an adults table - the men ate in the den, the women at the table, and the kids at the kid's table. it wasn't a big formal meal.

[game blouses]

I did, but I was the oldest out of all the cousins, so I didn't like it very much.

[BaliHai]

We did for Thanksgiving and Christmas. It felt super cool.

The kids in my family aren't old enough to require their own table, but if, down the road, we host and they are, we would do one.

[kadams767]

Yes, but it was always fun and everything was super informal anyway. There were actually usually 4 tables, my grandparents didn't have tables big enough to seat all the adults or all the kids at one. So there were usually two or three tables in the one room for all of the "kids" (all 12 of us cousins ate there until our 20s), with the parents/grandparents and other adults in the other room at the big dining table. As kids, we spent way more time running around, playing games, watching TV, stealing dessert and just being kids than sitting down to dinner. It was one day the adults just didn't really care what we were all doing.

Oh, if we had enough kids, I'd have one. As it is now, though, there is only one. So she eats with the adults. I suspect she'd prefer to eat in the floor with the dog.

[flex]

Nov 6, 2013 18:26:46 GMT -5 curtains said:

Nov 6, 2013 17:27:30 GMT -5 flex said:

I did growing up at my grandparent's house (on my mom's side). They had 9 kids and I have oodles of cousins in my age group. we had a ball at the kid's table.

I've done a kid's table once before I married DH. I had a Thanksgiving dinner at my house and I had the boys sit at a separate table. It was kind of nice, but my then soon-to-be-SS didn't like it much. lol

Why didnt ss like it? I am hoping to include step kids and I want everyone to enjoy themselves. (High hopes huh?)

He didn't like it because he was 16 and he thought he was mature and should sit with the adults.  lol  

[blueshirt2003]

Yea, a card table.

[hopecounts]

Yes we had one, it was fine didn't really bother me. It was a logistics thing the dining room table wasn't big enough to hold everyone so the kitchen table was set up for the kids.

We don't currently do the kid table thing we just have a few tables and people just sit wherever and their kids sit with them.
This year it's scaled down but the 3 kids are all too young to sit alone so it'll probably be either kids and parents at one table or split at either table.

[sonrisa]

We did when I was a kid and we will this year (for the 1, 3 and 4 year old). I loved it. A friend and I were the big kids and ruled the roost.

[Deleted]

I did, and my cousins and I actually still separate ourselves to one end of the table.

[macmars45]

Yes and yes. All my 6 cousins, 4 sisters and I on my dad's side ate together in a totally different room from the adults. It was fun; we all enjoyed it.

If I had a lot of kids and/or the kids were all over 5/6 yrs old, yes I'd totally do it if I was hosting for T-day.

[winnied]

We did and we loved it! It was usually just me, my brother, and my cousin, though. We were all within three years of each other so we were close.

We have one with my in-laws and they seem to love it. I know the adults enjoy having our own table!