Christopher Reeves' son reveals his family's dinner table rule after his father's accident

Christopher Reeve's children remember their family spending dinner together.

On Monday, September 16, Will Reeve appeared with his siblings Matthew and Alexandra on Good morning America to promote the documentary Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story.

The siblings recalled their parents' efforts to keep life at home as normal as possible after Christopher returned from the hospital in 1995 following an injury that left him paralyzed.

Will, who now works as a reporter for ABC News, said family meals remain important, even if they are not allowed to talk about their father's injuries.

“Whether it was good news, bad news or scary news, dinner was family time. 'How was school?' They sat next to each other at the head of the table,” said Will, 32. “My mom fed him and herself. We had friends come over. It was very happy, robust, loud – everything you want from a family meal.”

“That was every night, and the only thing you weren't allowed to talk about was specific medical things. It could have been anything,” he added.

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Christopher, who rose to fame playing Superman on screen in the 1970s and 1980s, died in 2004 at the age of 52. Will's mother, Dana Reeve, was diagnosed with lung cancer and died in March 2006 at the age of 44, just 17 months after Christopher's death. (Christopher had his two older children with his ex-partner Gae Exton.)

While recalling life with his family before the death of his parents, Will said on Good morning America that his mother often sang when she spent time in the house.

“Always. While she's making me my afternoon snack, while she's putting me to bed, she's always singing,” he said. “And I, 10, 11 years old, would say, 'Mommy, stop, this is so annoying, I'm trying to watch the show. Why are you always singing? My friends' moms don't sing all the time,' you're just 11, right? And she'd say, 'Oh, okay, sorry,' or she'd turn the volume up to annoy me.”

“It's always easy to be wise in hindsight, but I wish I had asked her to sing more, because when I think of her, that's how I feel,” he added. “The moments where there were just – the quiet moments of safety and happiness and normality and being together. We didn't have to be in the same room, but I knew where she was. I miss that.”

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story will be shown in selected cinemas on September 21st and 25th.