Do you make breakfast for your child?

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And if so how old are they?

Dds are 13 and 11 and consider it my job to get their breakfast and 99% of the time I do their breakfast when I do mine. The toaster is broken so we have to use the grill for anything toasted. A PITA but fine and they can do it themselves safely. They object and have a strop if I say no to getting their breakfast if they have slept in and Ds and I have already had ours, or they don't want to eat at the same time for whatever reason.

At 11 we used to have a cooked breakfast at the weekends so mum or dad did that. I'm pretty sure I got my own cereal though. At 13 I was vegetarian and cooked all my own meals.

Ds is 5 and will do his own cereal sometimes but we always eat together so I usually do his. He likes the independence of getting his own.

What do you/your dc do?

My husband is furloughed and takes our 16 year old DD her breakfast in bed every morning. I've given up trying to remind him she's old enough to get her Princess backside in the shower and down stairs first thing but makes no difference. She's the youngest and still at home and though he maintains he has no favourites she is most definitely daddy's little girl. We nearly lost her as a baby and they've been very close ever since..

DS is 6 and sometimes makes his own cereal. I usually do it for him though because I’m his mum, I want to, and he’s still only young.

By 11 and 13, I’d expect him to do it himself, unless I was making something - such as bacon butties at the weekend

He usually sorts his own bath/shower out and gets himself dry and into PJs

I'm going to show them this thread!

Mine get their own and have since they started school, so from 4-5. One doesn’t eat it at home though, just has it at breakfast club at school, never bothers at weekends.

They just do cereal or fruit.

You’re not doing them any favours really. There’s no reason it can’t be a joint effort though, I can’t imagine ever waiting on teens sat at the table who still need their toast buttered. Cooked breakfasts are a bit different.

Well, from about 11 my mum would make me tea and toast on one weekend day and I'd make hers the next! Definitely start giving them cooking duties- no reason they can't make you breakfast or lunch one day a week since you sort out theirs the rest of the time.

I’ve been taking DD breakfast in bed throughout lockdown. It’s been totally wonderful

My DD (14) is a better cook than me!!

When I was working a lot, she made the breakfast for all of us.

I like cooking, but she also cooks. She's vegetarian and makes most of her own meals. DS helps her.

She makes a mean scrambled egg, perfect pancakes, chickpea curry, pasta sauce, veggie fry up.

I don't let her use the oven when I'm not in though.

I throw the breakfast on the table during the week and make something like waffles or pancakes at the weekend, sometimes a big veggie fry up.

DS has been able to get toast and cereal, glass of milk and some fruit for a while - but I’m used to getting it all on the table.

9 and 12yo here. They get their own breakfasts (cereal, porridge, toast) and the 12yo makes tea but the younger one can’t quite manage the heavy kettle yet.

They also have food related chores - dishwasher, wiping sides, helping with meal prep, tidying food cupboards.

No way and I think your girls need to learn some respect! Mine have been doing their own since the eldest was about 6/7. They also strip their own beds, bring the washing down, put clean blessing on (10yo still needs help but the others are OK) and dishwasher, hoovering, dusting, hanging out washing and cleaning bathrooms are all on a rota.

*Bedding lol

Nope but I do remind her if I think she's skipping it.

The kitchen is on a rota. They argue about it and don't wash anything properly so they have to do it again which causes more strops. They will hopefully learn to do it properly the first time and realise it's less work that way.
I ask them to strip their beds and make them again.

All my kids get their own cereal (11, 8, 5), the two older ones can make scrambled eggs and eggs bread. I only make breakfast for the family on weekends

DS is 8, and does it all himself unless he wants scrambled eggs, which I obviously supervise. He started getting his own choice of cereal, bowl, spoon out aged 3.

He also bakes cakes and just comes to get me when they are ready, and will set a cold lunch out in the table for the whole family if he gets hungry first.

He strips his bed, sometimes Hoover's, puts his own washing away... I'm aiming for him to be independent by 16 and children are easier to teach than teenagers!

Gets me when the cakes are ready to go in the oven that should say

She's 8 and mostly no. She sorts her own cereal. I do if we are having something different or if I am making mine and she's still getting dressed

Dd (10) makes her own cereal every morning, and can do poached or scrambled egg (in the microwave) on toast if she fancies.

Mine are 12/10/7 and all make their own breakfast. 10 year old is currently making lunch. When I went to uni I came across so many helpless adults, I swore blind mine would be able to look after themselves.

They are more than capable, they just choose not to. They are now objecting that there's no lunch until they have finished the breakfast things and things they didn't do last night. The problem is at their dads they didn't have to do anything. His gf made him do all the household jobs. Here I try and operate a team approach to things.

Mine are 14 & 9. Both have made their own breakfast and lunch since at least aged 7.

They would usually make toast/toasties, cereal, fruit salad, cheese and crackers for breakfast and wraps, sandwiches, super noodles for lunch

My 9 year old also feeds the cat

We normally eat all meals together unless it is school holidays when DD can sleep in and DH and I already work. She will then do her own.

Breakfast is normally toast and jam, cereals or the odd pancake in our house so it’s not that I cook a B&B style menu each weekend.

I do cook most meals but that’s because I love cooking. DD does her share helping and can cook if she needs to.

My DD mas got her own breakfast since she was about5.I left cereals out .We had a few accidents with milk from the bigger,full bottles at first but she soon mastered it.
She's had to learn as I like a small breakfast not smoothies,porridge,pancakes and waffles.