To ask if your kids watch TV at breakfast

[firstimer30s]

Just that really. Do your kids watch TV while eating their breakfast and if not, what do they do?

No because they're such bellends in the morning that adding tv into the mix would be like popping napalm into the situation.

They belligerently rise from their beds, dress in sullen silence, brush their teeth whilst squabbling over who has more room at the sink (there are two sinks in there for that very reason but they fight over who has the best one - that's the level of madness we're dealing with) and then slump to the table and loudly eat their breakfast whilst also complaining of tiredness/a sore foot/a bellyache/not having done their homework/not being able to find anything before I brightly exclaim "time to go" and start the hideous process of attempting to make them wear actual shoes and tuck in their shirts and wipe their faces.

No. TV before 9am won't be permitted til they're at least 47 years old.

No, we don't have a TV in the kitchen..

Only on weekends or school holidays.
Weekdays, they get washed, dressed and teeth done, then breakfast at the kitchen table, bags, coats etc ready then if there's time they can play or watch TV. DS3 prefers to read his school book in the mornings rather than after school.

Every single morning. Mine are 4 (nursery) and 20months. They watch CBeebies while the general faff goes on. It's like a timer really.

@Highhorse1981 she is 5

I’ve told her that from tomorrow no TV in the mornings. She’s a bit sad about it but accepts it

They did when they were young. They'd rather listen to music now they're teens.

Despite the fact that we were quite lax in our allowance of tv time when they were little none of them is very interested in the tv now.

Yes, I have a living/kitchen/dining room all in one and I’m a single parent so it’s pretty handy for me to park them in front of the tv with cereal while I go and get dressed and ready for work. Don’t know anyone in real life who doesn’t do this either!

Also, they eat on the couch. We have a kitchen diner and a dining room and a decent-sized conservatory but breakfast is eaten on the couch watching Peter Rabbit (me included). It works for us.

Yes.

Yeah, he’ll stick YouTube videos on in the front room while he gets ready for school and while I’m upstairs getting ready for work, then it’s bag packed, teeth done and out the door to breakfast club so, we leave at 7am so it’s for a total of 15/20 mins.

You don’t need to do anything “nice”

Just sit across the table from her and have your breakfast with her. Have a chat, let her flick through her school reading book. Don’t make it a big deal. It’s eating a meal with any electronics.

Yes.

Situation in our house similar to idontbelieveinthemoon's so definitely not!
TV turns them into zombies so if we had it on breakfast would never get eaten and mornings would be even slower. We talk or sometimes listen to music and do the reading/spellings/form filling that I didn't manage the night before.

I’m chilled about TV btw!

But meal times (other than Friday TV dinner night) are at the dining table with no electronics

Mine 5 and 7

@tawdrylocal @firstimer

Snap! My morning schedule too! I'm dreading them changing it....

Yes. We usually watch a cooking show (their choice!) or something where people get a new kitchen as a surprise type thing.

We eat dinner at the kitchen table but breakfast is on our knees in front of the telly. We like it.

And to answer your original question, no we don't watch tv until after breakfast

Oops Ignore me for some reason I read that as watch TV in the morning not at breakfast, DS has breakfast at breakfast club so no he doesn’t get to watch TV eating breakfast on a school day but he does at weekends.

No but they can watch it when they’re ready.
Sometimes we listen to times tables songs on YouTube. I’m sure It really helps. Dd knew her 6 times tables when she was 2.5 as her brother was learning it. Of course, she had no idea what it meant. I couldn’t claim she was a child prodigy or anything but it was entertaining.

No we would never get out

We have the radio on either bbc London or radio 2

And ds will chat and chat and chat

@Highhorse1981 I’m currently breastfeeding DD2, so can’t sit at the table with her. I sit on the sofa breastfeeding and she sits at the table eating and watching hey duggee etc

Definitely not. Son eats breakfast with husband and they look at maps of the world or discuss which is the biggest sea creature or something - I faff around upstairs and occasionally shout instructions down. TV is for after supper, sometimes.

You don't need nice things to do when eating breakfast, you just eat your breakfast?

How come not at a seat at the table?

Genuine question, not loaded.

In any event, just sitting in same room and engaging with her whilst she eats or just leaving her to look through book or even nothing at all - just getting on with eating her breakfast