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Do you give breakfast at a set time or dependent on when your DC wake up?

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Traumdeuter · 20/03/2022 06:40

Just curious what others do really. 2yo DS can be quite inconsistent with waking up times, anything between 5am to 6.45 is within the realms of normal, and in the past two months it’s a occasionally been earlier and later too.

I make breakfast for us at around 7am no matter what time we’re up before then - if very early then I’ll give a snack with a cup of milk when we get downstairs. I am the opposite to most people in that I wake up ravenous and need to eat something asap, so this has kind of followed on from DS watching me eat something as soon as we’re downstairs and then showing an interest when he was weaned. But I’m not keen on a pre-breakfast snack and would rather just make breakfast.

On the handful of occasions he’s slept later than 6.45 I found the morning quite stressful. On nursery days we’re out of the house at 8.15 so this timing works well. The rest of the week he’s with a parent and the days are more flexible with no requirement to be anywhere.

Do you serve breakfast at a set time each day or does it vary?

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mnnewbie111 · 20/03/2022 10:05

I'm weird and make the kids eat at 7, even tho up before 6. My son always tell me Daddy let's us have it whenever we want. I'm obviously a control freak but also just like to know they won't get to childcare hungry when if they eat earlier they could be.

99pronouns · 20/03/2022 15:49

I am so confused by this non-issue.

If I have breakfast I just eat it when I'm hungry, not a set time.
You're not running a B&B - or are you? Confused

Traumdeuter · 20/03/2022 20:56

No B&B here @99pronouns: just idling wondering what other people do, and not wanting to encourage my young child to wake up early but managing his hunger and food intake whilst he’s too young to tell me what he needs

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MindfulMarch · 20/03/2022 21:05

@Traumdeuter. Thanks for your reply. It's interesting you've always been hungry when you wake up & pretty much irrespective of what you eat the night before. Are you effortlessly slim as well?

It sounds like doing what you do is working well for you. As I said, if we were leaving at 6:15, he'd be having breakfast at childcare, but as you're having breakfast anyway yourself then him eating with you makes sense.

On days you don't have to leave at 6:15 I'd do it later when possible so he's not waking for food at all.

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