What topics are taboo at your dinner table?

[CBC News]

Canadians will tell friends and family how much they weigh, how they voted or the state of their love life.
But money changes everything.
A survey conducted for the Bank of Montreal indicates that money matters top the list of sensitive topics, ahead of religion, politics, weight and other matters deemed too sensitive for discussion at the dinner table.
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Canadians will tell friends and family how much they weigh, how they voted or the state of their love life.
But money changes everything.
A survey conducted for the Bank of Montreal indicates that money matters top the list of sensitive topics, ahead of religion, politics, weight and other matters deemed too sensitive for discussion at the dinner table.
Read full story
What topics are taboo at your dinner table?


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Growing up the dinner table was a quiet time. Discussion about the goings-on of the day followed in the living room.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

No topics have ever been taboo at the dinner table at Chateau Sinister, or anywhere else in the house. There may be certain things one doesn't want to talk about while eating, as some people's gag reflex is more sensitive than others', but we never told our kids or each other that anything must not be talked about. Any idea was fair game, and we were always perfectly up front with them about anything they asked. They knew our incomes, our investment profiles, our thoughts and beliefs, or lack of beliefs, on everything they ever brought up.

They never asked us about our sex life though. :smile: But if they had, I'd have admitted that yes, we do it, and like it a lot. They did of course ask about the mechanics of it, how it's done, who does what to whom and what it feels like, and so forth, and we always tried to give age-appropriate answers, but there were no taboos. There have been some extremely complex and difficult and combative dinner table conversations here, and there have been times when we've said, "Let's put this off to another time, because it's upsetting to digestion," but nobody was ever told we can't talk about this.

 

[talloola]

When my daughters were still living at home, all through their childhoods and teen years,
the dinner table talk was almost always about sports. We are a sports oriented family,
it comes naturally, as my husband and I loved sports as teenagers, and have known each other since I was 13 and he was 14. They did everything, dancing, gymnastics, ice hockey, softball, and other sports in school, track and field, and
everything they played was at a very competative level, so, the dinner table was 'lively,'
and many stories were told,and there were lots of fishing and hunting stories too, as my husband loved those sports, and had many stories at the table, and the girls fished as well, and I don't remember anything very sensitive, or uncomfortable, as I don't think anyone thought about it, at the table, but privately, there was those conversations.

 

[quandary121]

I'm surprised there are still dinner tables,to talk around.let alone a family to sit around to discuss anything on ...!!!