"Usually my mom will call me from work and ask me what I want to eat. If I'm in a hurry, which I always am, I'll tell her Wendy's or Taco Bell. She'll bring it in the house around 3:40, and I'll sit it on the coffee table in front of the TV...Within 10 minutes, I'll be done with dinner and ready to get back to my schedule."—Chad Cullen, 14
"I usually eat by myself. My parents are either not home or upstairs playing on the computer. So obviously I rarely talk during dinner. But I like it that way."—Matthew Wakefield, 14
"My mom works from 1:00PM till 10:30PM, so I almost never get to see her. My father goes to work at 3AM and gets home at 6 or 6:30PM. So my brothers and I make whatever we want. When my dad gets home, he makes whatever he wants. That's our suppertime. I wish we had a family where we would sit around the table and talk while eating."— Jamie McCool, 17
"In my family, we have to wait until everybody shows up— then we eat. I think most Chinese always do it that way. At the table, we talk about what happened today and have a happy time. I think talking to my parents is very important, because they always give some ideas to solve my problems, and talking to them at the dinner table can make me feel comfortable." —Jonathan Kao, 17