To insist on five minutes for a cup of tea?

[ThinkIveBeenHacked]

DD is 3, and, on waking, doesn't stop talking for the rest of the day. I love how chatty and fun she is tbh. When we get up I sort her out with breakfast and a drink, and she asks for a cartoon.

I have a potch round then make myself a brew. Then she asks me to play. She has some toys which require someone to play with and some she can play alone.

I am sick of saying "DD, im drinking my cup of tea, ill play that game when I am finished, find something else for five minutes".

I know I could play the game and drink my tea, but it is pretty much all go all day long so I dont think IABU to want a five minute window in the morning to wake up/check emails/MN.

AIBU?

[cosmicglittergirl]

YANBU
Never too early for children to learn the importance of the tea break.

[NotOnMyWatchOhNo]

er...... No.

[InTheGiraffery]

YDNBU but small children don't get it. You might have to have your five minutes when it suits her, or set your alarm clock for earlier!
You have my sympathy though, I feel so much better if I can have a bit of piece and quiet to pull myself together.

[gamerchick]

Funny I was thinking the exact same thing. This morning. Kids seem to hit the ground running and dont stop till bedtime. Its us that get tired. Not to mention the cat who demands her needs met while I'm still bleary eyed and furiously clicks the rug when I want to wake up first.

My youngest waved his reading book in my face as soon as I came downstairs. I just want 5 minutes first!

So yes I hear you

[misscarlar]

i think you probably need to give a visual on how long you want either get an sand timer of say when the big hand on the clock is at such and such

[ThinkIveBeenHacked]

Well i finished the brew, we got out the game she wanted, and she just fannied around not playing it, so ive packed it all back away.

Kids.

[Purplepoodle]

Perfectly reasonable. I do the same. Kids eat breakfast then they can have cartoons on in the sittingroom. Then I sit and have my breakfast, a cuppa and check emails. Even the two year old has learned mummy isn't free until I get down from breakfast bar in the kitchen

[pictish]

No you're not. I always have 10 mins peace for a coffee in the morning at my own insistence.

[JuniperTisane]

Oh god. At this precise moment I am trying very hard to drink my coffee at the kitchen table and I have a very insistent 2yr old waving a huge dumper truck in my face. he wants a race I want my coffee.

Ah look - the 4yr old has come downstairs and is taking the pressure off. Now I can't hear myself think as they charge side by side across the kitchen...

I can't win can I?

[Minshu]

That's why I've put the TV on

[m0therofdragons]

My dc know they won't get good answers from me while I have my morning coffee. I get them breakfast then my coffee and read the news on my phone.
Dc are 7 and 3 - I'm just getting dressed and left them playing downstairs (make sure you get toys out the night before that don't need help).

[insanityscratching]

In a few years though they will all still be in bed whilst you potter about and MN to your heart's content because the years of enforced crack of dawn starts mean you no longer sleep in YANBU though but have to say I do miss those up and running mornings with little ones, dd 11 is unlikely to surface before half ten.

[MrsWooster]

Mummy wants Five Minutes Peace is a standard phrase here, thanks to repeated reading of the Large Family book. Little sods DC can't tell the time tho so don't know why I bother. Repeatedly tell DS 4.6 that I will come into his room at 6am every morning when he grows up and jump up and down and shriek. He finds hilarious. Just you wait,DS, just you wait...

[toomuchtooold]

I have 2y9m twins, there's loads of time in the day when they are happy to play alone/together but since there is also an average of about 3 and a half minutes between me taking my eye off them and them starting to fight, it's swings and roundabouts really.

(Having said that one of them went upstairs to put her dolly to bed yesterday and not only didn't want company, she actually threw us out! "No mummy, babby sleeping." We let it go on until we heard "babby needing a bath" and then the sound of water running...)

[Grokette]

toomuchtooold I have three year old twins too and your life sounds eerily like mine, complete with phantom running baths

I think it's only right to try to teach them that other people need to do things like eat and drink and sit for a bit too. Especially at three when they are so tyrannical. There's a lot of "Mummy and Daddy need to eat too" in our house.

[tenwrigglywigglycaterpillars]

First thing in the morning is the only time that I put the TV on and sit on the couch. Ds (just turned 1) drinks his sippy of milk then he has toys, tv, books all at his disposal but he insists on clawing at me/climbing the sofa. It's the only time of day that I sit and finish my tea. YANBU.

[samesizetoes]

This doesn't just apply to children. Dh does all his talking first thing in the morning and still forgets that I won't be listening until I've had my coffee.