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What do you expect your 7/8 year old to do in preperation for shool each day ?

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Lilyloo · 27/01/2010 12:41

I am on a slipply slope down the nag / nag route with ds.
This is especially bad in the mornings getting ready for school.
He is the eldest of 3 so i don't know if i am expecting too much of him.
He gets up around 7/7.30 and generally puts the tv on.
This starts my nagging.
Today for example i tell him to get ready then go upstairs to get the girls ready and myself.
Come back down at 8 and he is still dawdling about.
He then decides to get ready and starts grumbling about breakfast at 8.15 , we should leave at 8.20.

AIBU to expect him to get dressed (his clothes are already out)
get his breakfast (he can get cereals himself)
and brush his teeth/have wash ?

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CarGirl · 29/01/2010 20:35

upahill this was a row discussion dh and I had. In the end I had to conceed he was right, the messed up jumpers happen very rarely whereas the trauma of getting them breafasted first and then back to get dressed just takes too long.

ChasingSquirrels · 29/01/2010 20:59

ours varies - if he doesn't get dressed upstairs (which I ask him to if I am still upstairs getting ready when he wakes up) then I bring his uniform downstairs and he gets dressed after breakfast.

ds2 usually gets dressed after breakfast, again I bring his clothes downstairs.

Both get dressed before cleaning their teeth - that is the last thing we do nearly on the way out of the door - toothbrushes in the downstairs loo by the front door.

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