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Is it unreasonable not to give a 9 year old breakfast?

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Towelsandcats · 28/08/2015 13:59

Just as it says above really - otherwise fairly healthy diet but breakfast causes rushing in the morning.

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Towelsandcats · 28/08/2015 14:33

She always has a drink

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gamerchick · 28/08/2015 14:33

You can't send her to school with no breakfast just because you don't have time. Get better organised, she needs something. Even if it's toast and a banana to eat on the way.

theDudesmummy · 28/08/2015 14:33

We are no good at breakfasts (only adults in the home apart from 6yo DS, much rushing etc in the mornings, no-one else eats breakfast, yes I know it's not right but that's the way it usually happens), but I insist DS has breakfast. He has two pieces of wholewheat toast, one of them with peanut butter on, and can eat them on the go. It takes no time at all and he eats them wherever, including walking, in the car etc. He does not always finish them (he is autistic and not a great eater in the mornings) but he always has some.

TheHouseOnTheLane · 28/08/2015 14:34

OP it's not a case of "if she wants". You need to actively encourage her to eat something in the morning. That's your job.

She's 9!

Do you really, truly not bother encouraging her?

MuttsNutts · 28/08/2015 14:35

A drink of what? If it's milk that's a food in itself so a good start.

"She can get something to take with her if she wants". Sorry but that sounds really crap. She is 9 years old. Don't you want to make sure you see her off with a full tummy so that she can start the day full of energy?

Sirzy · 28/08/2015 14:35

I'm not convinced the OP is actually reading the replies!

TheHouseOnTheLane · 28/08/2015 14:37

Milk is not a food if you're 9 Mutts! It is if you're a baby..but a 9 year old needs the energy which solid food provides.

JustOneMinuteAtATime · 28/08/2015 14:38

I don't eat in the morning. I've never been able to. Before 10am and it makes me feel ill.

At school, I just used to get a cereal bar or yogurt and eat it at first break. At work, I take a cereal bar or something and eat it mid-morning when I get hungry.

TheHouseOnTheLane · 28/08/2015 14:39

Just most kids these days can't have a cereal bar at first break...it would probably be a piece of fruit. Schools often don't allow those do they.

googoodolly · 28/08/2015 14:40

A drink for breakfast isn't enough at nine years old! She needs something a bit more substantial than that. Even a banana on the school run would be better than nothing.

MuttsNutts · 28/08/2015 14:42

TheHouse - if you read my post properly you will see that I didn't say that was all she should have. I said it's a "good start" because not only does that give her fluid but it also contains a lot of nutrients as well. So you can take your exclamation mark and stick it where the sun don't shine.

I work in a school as well and agree you can tell the kids that aren't given breakfast a mile off.

Goshthatsspicy · 28/08/2015 14:43

Nine is probably an age where preferences are starting to come out.
I'd make her a fruit smoothy. With lots of banana. Would she like that?
I agree you don't want a battle ground. Everyone's mental health is important too.
I'm not saying that lightly either.
Good luck.

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Towelsandcats · 28/08/2015 14:43

She's an overachiever in all areas.

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Sirzy · 28/08/2015 14:43

How is that relevant at all?

spanisharmada · 28/08/2015 14:44

I'm rubbish at doing food first thing so DC get a brioche, a banana and a hot milk on mornings I can't even face toast. She could help herself to that and eat it on the go?

TyrionLannistersShadow · 28/08/2015 14:44

I think yabu not to get her up a bit earlier and make sure she has breakfast. To my mind its part of a parents job to make sure kids do whats best for them not just what they want to do. She might well prefer a lie in but as a growing kid with school ahead of her she needs the nutrition and its your job to make sure she gets it. Just set the alarm 20 mins earlier and tell her if she is too tired to get up then go to bed earlier , thats what I do ;)

TheHouseOnTheLane · 28/08/2015 14:44

Mutts if you read my post carefully I didn't say that you said that was all she should have. I said that milk is not a food...which is what you said it was. So here..have another !!!

HackAttack · 28/08/2015 14:44

Yes, breakfast is a good habit that a parent should establish, your job, no excuses

Goshthatsspicy · 28/08/2015 14:44

sirzy probably because her education isn't suffering?

MuttsNutts · 28/08/2015 14:45

OP - Why are you even asking the question? You are obviously convinced you're doing the right thing even though you're not

And she is "an over achiever" after all...

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Towelsandcats · 28/08/2015 14:45

Her dad gets her up.

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Sirzy · 28/08/2015 14:45

Not necessarily true though gosh. "Overachieving" is not the same as reaching potential.

SonnyNoChance · 28/08/2015 14:46

This is like a parallel universe. OP do you live on planet earth?

Goshthatsspicy · 28/08/2015 14:47

sirzy yes, true.

gamerchick · 28/08/2015 14:47

An arse full of exclamation marks makes quite the picture

OP it's pretty much unanimous.. What are you going to do?

(Unless your David Cameron who's about to sell to us that kids don't need fed in the morning so mothers can go to work earlier)?

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