to ship the kids off with a twenty minute turn around?

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I don't sleep well and so I often struggle to pull myself out of bed in the morning. My ds (the eldest) can get up no problem and is usually first up. DD needs lots of encouragement to actually get out of bed but once up can moe fast.

Each morning the need to be out the door at 8.25 for the school bus. It seems we have gotten into a routine of not actually surfacing until about 8am and so its all a bit crazy rush to get washed, dressed, make lunches and get out the door. But we haven't missed the bus yet.

Actually when they are up earlier they take their time more and start messing about with toys or watching tv and then they do have days when they miss the bus. This rush rush doesnt feel great at the time but it seems to work for us.

AIBU rushing them up and out? I know i like time to come to in the morning and enjoy my cuppa but is it different when you are a kid. The best bit about being in such a rush is no time to whinge!!!

COuld you do lunches the night before, then it feels less rushed?

Yanbu...my sister does the same due to her DC watching TV and playing...she has them dressed and washed before they come down, then they eat...then they go!

If it works for you, fine. Could you check with them what they think about it?

My ds would be fine- he can be happily ready to go out the door in 10 minutes and that includes seeing to his menagerie! But dd would absolutely hate it she likes thongs to be just so and can't bear a rush.

Ds needs to leave at 8.10 and his mate calls for him at 8 - as long as I waste ds up by 7.30am he can be ready and have had breakfast and be on time. We have no telly or playing at all in the mornings and never have had. Ds is 11.

Things, not thongs. Although once she is into thongs, they will be just so. And matching her bra. She's no child of mine!

Teehee thongs

Think the kids are ok with it but will ask them. They don't whinge when we are late up. They get ready, eat breakfast (usually dd eats while i do her hair) and then do teeth and go. When we used to get up at 7.30 they would watch tv while eating breakfast or after breakfast and then be bickering over what was on, or if they played with toys they'd be faffing about at the last minute. This way just seems to work.
cockwomble i do sometimes prepare pack lunches the night before but our fridge is usually jam packed so no room to refridgerate over night. In winter i do them on a night and leave them in the conservatory over night as its freezing out there! They don't take long anyway and I usually make them as i am nagging calling through to dd to get dressed

seeker !!didnt even read that as thongs, i read things, obviously lacking an eye for detail after the rush!

We work similarly on school mornings except I do pack up the night before.
I find the same when we get up early.

Oh yeah, packed lunches always done the night before and uniform/games kit packed etc.