I never felt the need for us to live like that

Art: 

Why don’t we have proper meal times like other families?

Mother: 

Your father and I are very busy people

You’ve had a perfectly normal and satisfactory 

upbringing and you know it! 

Art: 

I supose so 

Mother: 

In my parents’ household, meal times ran like clockwork;

 it was down right oppressive and 

I never felt the need for us to live like that