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?

Dd1 (13) makes her own breakfast
Ds1 (12) makes his and ds2s (6 with asd) except when ds2 insists I do it
Dd2 (11) makes hers and dd4s (7 with asd) although sometimes dd4 makes her own
Dd3 (9) makes her and ds3s (2)

The older children make their younger siblings breakfast by choice, I am happy to do it anytime they decide they don't want to

Depends, if she's awake when I make mine I'll ask her what she wants. Otherwise she'll make her own.

Older ones have left and hey always made their own as I was out to work early doors

I do if I’m doing it for all of us, eg French toast/pancakes/bacon at weekends

Otherwise 9yo dd sorts cereal/porridge/scrambled eggs for herself and helps her 3yo brother get cereal and fruit

Usually on schooldays they make their own breakfast, often I just dish up to them something more healthy I'm making for me too, like some veggie food or smoothie. On weekends I make breakfast for the family.

One of things I taught DC to do when going to school was making their own breakfast. By year 1 they had got the hang of it.

For a cooked breakfast, we only tend to have eggs, maybe some fried bread or beans, otherwise pancakes or waffles in the waffle maker. This is something they could do themselves by leaving primary school.

Frankly I'd expect them to be making me breakfast, what else have they got to do thats so important? In current circumstances, they should each do a family lunch and cook an evening meal once a week.

From about 5 years old both mine have been sorting out breakfast for themselves (cereal and fruit). As they got older we took it in turns to the occasional fry up. I don't understand the concept of making a child's breakfast unless you ate having something special.

My children are 6 and 8. They've been making their own breakfast and lunches for the past 2 years.

My 6 year old will make breakfast for herself and her younger siblings. She can make cereal, toast, sandwiches etc.

My 7yr old has made her own breakfast for about a year, she needs help to reach the microwave for porridge but usually makes cold cereal or roasts a croissant.

My 11yr old makes me coffee and toast in bed.

My 8 year old will do her own cereal, toast or chop up some fruit for with yoghurt and granola.

I make her porridge as she hasn't quite got the knack of getting the proportions right (and it exploded all over the microwave) and ill do scrambled,/boiled eggs for her.

We never had a toaster growing up (my mum still doesn't) but I was taught to use the grill by about 10ish

Toast not roast

I only provide an evening meal, they make their own breakfast and lunch, 18, 16, 13, 11.

No. Breakfast used to be a bowl of cereal and they can do that themselves. My daughter doesn't eat breakfast now and my son makes himself a protein smoothie.
On weekends I'll offer to cook something like French toast or very occasionally a fry up but normally no takers.

Mine are 10 & 7. They usually get their own cereal or toast / bagel on a morning. Or yogurt / fruit / croissants / cereal bars depending what we have in. DH usually does them pancakes or breakfast butties at the weekend.

Older one will make scrambled / fried eggs or omelettes for them both, or make a sandwich or salad - certainly at the minute when I'm often working while they're home.
She can make a brew and mix decent g&t as well they're also now starting to cook occasional evening meals under supervision.

They're life skills the kids need and are more than capable of, and, frankly, I'm not their skivvy.

When they were about 3&4 I put everything breakfast in cupboards at their level. Milk was a bit tricky but they had alternatives like brioche rolls. Never looked back.

DS13 and DD12 make their own breakfast, lunch and sometimes dinner. DD brought me avocado on toast this morning and then made chorros and chocolate sauce from scratch. DS is currently making himself burgers - from mince and making his own buns. Yesterday he made a big pot of Passata.

I see one of the jobs as a parent is to help them grow into kind, confident and capable adults. I've taught them from young that they can do anything: they can both use a sewing machine, hand sew and knit. They can both use sharp knives safely, saw wood, use a drill - including changing the drill bit. Paint walls neatly, put up a basic shelf/curtain pole. Clean and sweep/hoover. Shop to a budget and meal plan. None of these things are enforced and I always cook an evening meal but often they'll want to do it. I'm a rubbish parent in lots of ways but feel confident that if I disappeared off the face of the earth they'd be more than capable of looking after themselves.

My dd was getting her own cereal completely independently when she was about 4 or 5. We moved house when she was 3 and when I organised the kitchen, I made sure that the cereals and her plates, dishes and cutlery were in a bottom cupboard where she could reach them.

Probably another couple of years before she made toast unsupervised.

I'm not sure how old she was when she started getting her own lunch, but definitely by the time she started secondary school.

My 7 and 10 year olds make their own breakfast every day. Even if I'm cooking a breakfast on a weekend they'll have their own first breakfast

Dd2 who has just turned 7 is petty creative with her breakfasts. She'll often pick things like humous, breadsticks and apple with some chorizo or cheese on the side. DD1 who is 10 tends to make toast with peanut butter and a banana but she can do scrambled eggs. They've been using the toaster since about age 5 and gradually went from occasionally to every day.
Think I stopped entirely when dd2 was 6. Since lockdown they've been making their own lunches too which is normally filled pitta breads or wraps with cucumber/tomatoes etc

DD is 12 and I still make her breakfast, because that fits with our morning routine.

If she needed to, she could quite capably make her own.

She does her own lunch and frequently (at least twice per week) cooks the family dinner.

My two, 11 and 14 have been making their own breakfasts and lunches for a few years. Youngest is quite proficient and can make a few evening meals. Eldest is less keen, but definitely wouldn't starve if left to her own devises. Don't let them use the oven if I'm out though.

Dc year 3 and 5. Make own bf and lunch. Kitchen closes at 10 an again at 2.

DSs 12 and 13 do their own and have done for years. DD10 doesn't eat normal breakfast food like cereal or toast so she's trickier, she likes a warmed sausage roll (microwaved) and does that herself, or a bowl of soup (again microwaved but harder as it's high up and she's only just starting to do that herself due to risk of dropping hot soup!).
They are mostly left to do breakfast and lunch themselves when I'm at work, if I'm at home I remind them and offer to help as they seem to be forgetting to eat at the moment (while simultaneously our food bill is going up and all the food vanishes from the cupboards!).

I did assume you were going to say they were about 6.
Of course by 11 and 13 they were getting their own breakfast.

By 11 and 13, they were taking their turn to make one evening meal for the family each week. Breakfast and lunch had been mastered long before.

I make DS's breakfast but he's only just 7 and he usually has poached eggs which are a bit beyond his skills at the moment.