Do you make your teen breakfast every day?

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Child will turn 13 next month but despite being constantly asked to help out around the house, will only do bare minimum. I had mostly wfh for the last 6 years so always made breakfast, lunch and dinner. I am now looking to change jobs and everything I have applied for so far it’s mainly office/field based. Child is capable of making eggs, sandwiches, simple meals but will not get up early enough to prep own breakfast and lunch. I don’t want them to eat sugary cereal and they insist on eating breakfast such as eggs, halloumi, toast or home made smoothie bowls which takes a lot of time in the morning that soon enough I won’t have (I just have a black coffee myself). Should I insist that they start getting up 20 mins earlier and start making it themselves?

Come on now, you know your answer.

I do for my y12. Yes he can, and no, I shouldn’t but…

He leaves at 7am - I chose his school
He went through a phase of overtiredness and general sub-par-ness around y9 and I felt his school work was suffering. Breakfast either actually or psychologically helped so I want to keep it up. Prior to that he was supposed to do it himself but either had nothing or went to greggs/sweet shop.
I don’t do much for him so this is a nice thing for us.
He can cook - he preps his own lunches and makes one meal a week (dh, ds1 and I do 2 each)
He does other things for me (he walks and feeds my dog when I’m at work) and is fairly good at chipping in generally. He does quite a bit of washing and vacuuming and does more dishes than the rest of us.
He’s not lazy in other ways - he’s worked since 13, he try’s hard at school, he has hobbies, he’s a good friend.
It means he spends less at school - if he goes over the agreed budget he’s supposed to too it up himself but it’s a pita and still is money out if the household.

He has 2 scrambled eggs with a bit of cheese in a wrap - he eats it on the street like an urchin as he walks to the bus. It takes under 3 minutes. I know he could take the 3 minutes instead of me but here we are.

I only make mine breakfast at the weekend. During the week they help themselves. Mine have never been good at waking up and eating, just like me. So they often don't have breakfast but take a cereal bar or fruit to school with them. I think there is nothing wrong with getting them to make their own breakfast.

Of course a teen can make breakfast

My 9yr old sorts her breakfast, cornflakes/shreddies/bran flakes or toast with butter.
I still do her packed lunch when she has one as she takes pasta in a food flask and I don’t want her dealing with the boiling water.

Well if you don’t have the time then it’s a non issue. Your teenager will get themselves sorted or not - too old to enforce their breakfasts really. Just get rid of the sugary cereal so it’s not an option. They can grab a cereal bar or similar if they want something quick, or get up a bit early if they fancy something nicer.

anecdotally we stopped regularly making our kids breakfast and lunch when they were 8 or so.