Dump Dinner: Arizona Dad Serves Spaghetti Straight on the Table

I had a solution to the stress and the mess of family dinner with young

kids

involved, or at least an idea. Instead of setting up plates

and silverware,

gathering around the dinner table for a civilized meal, some households are done

trying, and they're doing this as an alternative.

It's known as dump dinner because of that move there where you empty the pot

like

it's a pail. It's been a thing for a few years now on

social media.

Dump it.

Pasta first.

And it recently caught fire again thanks to Clark Hoppel here, a dad in

Arizona who dumped a full pot of spaghetti over a table of tinfoil

and let his kids have at it. He says he and his wife came to the idea

on their

own, but for the same reason so many others

have: no dishes and no

complaints from the kids.

The kids obviously wanna do it again.

Uh, they had a lot of fun with it, eating with their hands.

Is it good for picky eaters? Is it a disaster for young manners?

Clark is not worried about any of that.

For him, and for so many others, the point is still the family

dinner itself.

I mean, it's just fantastic to spend time with the

kids when the kids wanna spend

time with you. There's gonna come a time where family

dinners, sitting around

eating off of tinfoil with your hands, is not gonna be something

that we all wanna

do.

Until that moment comes, dump dinner it is.