Also, in line with HK's let them get hungry suggestion: we only do 2 meals a day, snacks when requested only, usually once, and sometimes we get an actual lunch out of it. I get in a lot of trouble for that, because here the recommendation is 3 meals and 4 snacks. The 1 yr old needs to eat about that often, though, which complicates things! Ah well.
And we're working on expanding the dinner sitting (which is never distracted, and is always everyone at the table, talking and eating) to five minutes.
Though, at times I think we should just stop trying to do a sit-down dinner. It really is NOT fun for anyone right now. Though they like the religious parts.
