thinking I should do a cooked breakfast most days for my sons

We reintroduced family breakfasts and I love that feeling of packing them off to school with full bellies.

I go to a lot of trouble, setting the table, jugs of juice, fresh coffee and trying new recipes. It has transformed our mornings from stressful to one of the nicest parts of the day.

You can see the thread in 20 years "my DH expects a cooked breakfast everyday because MIL used to"... but I say if you want to do it, go for it!
Disagree it's better for everyone to prepare their own - sounds like too many cooks to me! But if it gives you family time sitting down together and gets your teens off to a good start - why not.

We have a cooked breakfast every morning - variations on the theme of eggs & toast with ham, bacon or sausages a few days a week. Boys are 8&10 and will carry on having a cooked breakfast until they leave home. Although when I was poorly they cooked their own (& mine!) so probably after then too.

Special breakfasts are waffles with bananas and melted Nutella drizzled over, or pancakes. Otherwise it's eggs. Omelettes, poached with cheese and mushrooms on toast, with bacon and sausages - best breakfast ever.

My mum didn't coddle DB or me at all, she was as far away from that as could be.

My dad though? He was the first up in a house, and would bring me a cup of tea and toast with jam, every (week day) morning in bed.

Aw, I think it's sweet, if probably best as a treat for exam time only. When I sat my exams my mum made me my favourite packed lunch every day (fresh roll with cheese, egg, tomato, lettuce and cucumber). I was 17 years old and perfectly able and willing to make my own lunch, but it was just nice of her.

Interesting question about daughters.

My mother still fills up plates that would defeat Desperate Dan for all the husbands and grandsons and clucks delightedly.

Less beaming and more terror when my sisters, our daughters and I (all sporty and fit) put more than a couple of cherry tomatoes and a transparent sliver of cheese on our plates.

I'm utterly mystified by my rabid feminism, food issues and resentment of my over-indulged brothers.

Having said that, I'm making banana pancakes for my GCSE lad every morning this week.

I think we should coddle them all while we can, life is short and I want mine to think of home as a place of unconditional love, safety, chats and belly laughs, dry towels and a full fridge.

God I could weep My oldest is only nine but I can see it coming.

I think the breakfast is a brilliant thing to do for them. Lots of good fat to keep them full.

Damn you. I was just about to have some toast and now I'm craving a Full English.

As an aside, if you're worried about nitrates in bacon, it's easy, and cheap, to cure your own, using just sugar and salt, and no saltpetre. I have a cooked breakfast every day, and was worried about my nitrate consumption, so I switched to home-cured bacon - problem solved :) We only have an normal sized fridge, and are in a flat, so nowhere to smoke the bacon - but my results so far are pretty tasty!

I definitely get where you are coming from :) I have a DS doing AS levels and I keep realisingthat he'll be gone to Uni in just over a year.
It's def a nurturing thing.
I start a new job next week so am going to make the most of this week and make him breakfast every day (apart from today as I'm about to meet a friend for coffee and he's not up yet - so much for study leave !)

My MIL is very much like this with DH. She takes great pride in filling him up with a whopping breakfast .

I like to do special breakfasts on certain days too. Exams, competitions, going away on camp, important meeting for DH etc. It's nice to feel like you've played a part in them being 'at their best'.

This is a lovely thread

I sometimes do cooked breakfast, poached eggs and toast, or bacon sandwich.

Other days they sort themselves out.
DS1(teen) goes through phases of craving eggs, he can and will make his own. But if I know I'll make him boiled egg and soldiers for him. he leaves for the bus at 7am

So no I don't think YABU.

Mind you, Jack, the wistfulness does tend to disappear when, at the age of 21, they're still living with you

My dad always wanted to make me a cooked breakfast when I was a teenager but I was a horrible, hormonal, self-conscious ball of angry angst and used to scornfully refuse and sip my black coffee disdainfully instead. I was an idiot. I express profuse gratitude when he cooks for me nowadays and let him make a big fuss of my children. Feeding people is one of the main ways he expresses love. I wish I'd appreciated it as a young 'un. I hope when my boys are teenagers they let me make breakfast for them sometimes too...aargh, this thread is making me nostalgic for my children's childhoods even though they are still so small!

My dad used to make me a cooked breakfast every day until I moved out at 23.

He does it for the DCs when they stay over now, bless him.

I say go for it, you obviously want to!

I make breakfast for my 16 year old daily. Either eggs with toast, oatmeal, or a tuna sandwich. Sometimes I will make waffles.

My older son makes his own breakfast.

Just looked, two fried eggs = 184 calories. Much less than the massive bowl of cereal they make themselves.

I have daughters - both doing exams this week. I always make them a cooked breakfast on exam day. Other days they fend for themselves.

If you look on Pinterest there are some fab cooked breakfast ideas that look yummy.
Never happens in my house- we all get up late everyday, and gobble cereal.