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

I love mollycoddling mine when they come home - what's the harm? They repay my love and nurturing by the bucketload, they aren't spoilt so they're totally worth it

Not wanting to get into the whole processed carb laden box food v meat and eggs debate, I say go for it, I wouldn't do it everyday but when my dds have something special like a trip or have extra work at school I like to make a fuss in the hope that it sets them up for a good day, pampering kids when you know they have a lot on their plates isn't spoiling them imho! 😊

We switched to cooked breakfasts when dd1 was sitting her GCSEs and it just sort of carried on.

So by the time dd2 left for uni, I'd been cooking them for 8 years.
I too love the phrase about spoiling unspoilt children.
Both are away at uni now and this thread had made me well up! You naughty lot!

You sound a lovely mum. My only issue would be that a full English every day isn't brilliant health-wise, but wouldn't do any harm a couple of times a week and there's lots of cooked breakfast ideas suggested here which you could try in between.

i miss my kids - I still like cooking for them when they come back. Make the most of it

My dh has always brought me tea in bed at the weekends ( he's up before me in the week) and as soon as ds was old enough dh taught him to do the same- the least I can do is grill a bit of bacon every now and again

I so agree orac
I think there is a lot of they are grown up leave them to it on here
They are your children always
Plus I want them to choose me a nice nursing home

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

I want to quote this on every single one of those nasty threads where people resent the fact that you still love your children after their 16th birthday. As if they have been counting the days until the cuckoo leaves their nest and all their time and money is their own again.

Well my time and money is theirs if they need it. I'm always conscious of
treading that line between teaching them how to cope with the world as adults and yet still wanting to nurture them. Little gestures of love are easy when they are babies. Not so much when they are 6'4" and 18.

There is nothing like spoiling unspoilt children
I'm going to steal that phrase and use it as well.

I did "exam breakfasts" when my boys started their GCSEs.
They worked so hard and I wanted to do something nice for them. I was just a little TLC.
DS1 is currently working 12 hours a day at uni in the midst of exams and I'd love to be able to something nice for him but he's 200 miles away. DS2 doing A levels but nerves mean he struggles to swallow a bite before an exam.

They are both perfectly capable of cooking anything themselves but, other than encouragement there isn't much I can do to smooth the path in exam periods.
I really don't believe a few bacon sandwiches matter. Both of mine are very tall, active and very thin.

Mmmmm.... fryups

Aww thanks steppemum!

Me too steppe!

There is nothing like spoiling unspoilt children.

I LOVE this sentence.
I think it may become my new motto.

Can I send you a couple more bottomless pits disguised as teenage boys?

My parents never cooked bacon and eggs for me when I was doing my exams- I had to get myself cereal or toast :(

-grumbles-

Aero - why?

OP... I think it's a lovely thing to do. There is nothing like spoiling unspoilt children.

One of my (now young adult) DCs came home at the weekend. I drew her a both with some new lovely foambath of mine. Trouble is I called out "don't miss all the bubbles, hurry!" which we both laughed about! I reverted to when she was about 5!

Clarrty that's a mean attitude of yours... of course they're old enough to pour their own cereal! But when you feel like ... sort of... your work is done.. it's an absolute pleasure to lavish love on a very appreciative grown up child.

my idea of a cooked breakfast is the same as what comes up if you google it - sausages, eggs, bacon, hash browns etc and for me that's too much stuff for everyday.

I just can't wrap my head around the cooked part I guess, I hate breakfast so eat it begrudgingly, a cooked one for me is like having a main meal for breakfast. I have no idea on the healthiness aspect of alternatives, I have porridge if dh is making it or toast as I get hungry too quickly if I have nothing.

I sometimes do my own version of the McDonalds breakfast wrap with a wholemeal wrap, omelette and then whatever we have out of potato waffles (which can be done in the toaster if only doing one or two if you missed the thread), bacon, sausages, mushrooms.

Sometimes I'll cook enough sausages and mushrooms for 2/3 days as these take the longest and then just microwave.

Get them to cook their breakfast, show them where the foods are kept.

redhat we often have left over dinner for breakfast too. Roast chicken wraps are popular :)

My DH makes a cooked breakfast every day and the DC choose whether they want it or not. It is one of: omelette, bacon roll, poached egg on toast, boiled egg with dippy soldiers sausagemeat patties and mushrooms.

There's a big difference between a cooked breakfast and a big greasy fry up IMO.

DS1 (15) has it every day, DD (13) most days and DS2 (10) if he likes it (so not usually if it's eggs except for boiled)

DH loathes the concept of cereal!

Cooked breakfast everyday imo is OTT, we have it every other week as it's too much. Love and food/feeding is something you'd hope people would be moving away from, it's how we get overeating and other related issues.

Mine had roasted cherry tomatoes, a poached egg and left over roast chicken with half an english muffin this morning. I'd like to know how that's more likely to lead to food issues than a bowl of cocopops?