AITA- breakfast drama

Anonymous
I’m confused, do you usually have family breakfast and wake your kids up for it? It’s odd to wake them up morning-of and expect it to go over well. Sure they could have been more amenable but it sounds like you set up an arbitrary goalpost. Let it go.
Anonymous
Still waiting to learn what kind of scrambled eggs are not fresh.
Anonymous
Yeah YATA. If your kids didn’t need to get up and they had the opportunity to sleep in and you had no amazing after breakfast plans, what were you thinking? The world doesn’t revolve around only your wants and desires. It must be exhausting to be your kids.
Anonymous
I have an 11yo. What we’re the other breakfast items you prepared? Just curious, I ask my kid now what she wants but it’s pretty much a choice of 3 variations. If she’s not hungry she has to drink juice but I don’t make her eat, although it feels wrong to me I’ve learned to let it go.
I don’t you’re an A but I think you set everyone up to fail this morning. Breakfast doesn’t need to be a big deal as far as family time.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Still waiting to learn what kind of scrambled eggs are not fresh.


It's just a way to up the martyrdom. She probably also served hand made toast and poured OJ from a brand new carton. It's not your basic family breakfast.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Still waiting to learn what kind of scrambled eggs are not fresh.

I have scrambled eggs in my fridge now leftover from a DH breakfast. I guess those aren't fresh.
As for 18 year old DS, he's yet to ever eat breakfast.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:I have an 11yo. What we’re the other breakfast items you prepared? Just curious, I ask my kid now what she wants but it’s pretty much a choice of 3 variations. If she’s not hungry she has to drink juice but I don’t make her eat, although it feels wrong to me I’ve learned to let it go.
I don’t you’re an A but I think you set everyone up to fail this morning. Breakfast doesn’t need to be a big deal as far as family time.


You know this isn’t about food, right? This is about OP being lonely and wanting to wake her kids up early on a weekend morning because she’s bored and can’t figure out how to spend her free time alone.
Anonymous
Agree with the other mom of small children who posted earlier. I can’t wait for my kids to be able to make their own breakfasts.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Still waiting to learn what kind of scrambled eggs are not fresh.


It's just a way to up the martyrdom. She probably also served hand made toast and poured OJ from a brand new carton. It's not your basic family breakfast.


Anonymous
This is so formal and weird. Who are you people? Wtf? Just get mad, get over it and move on good LORD it must be so ducking exhausting to be this way.
Anonymous
AITA? I wouldnt put is this harshly, but yes, you are. Thats way too early to wake up your kids on a weekend. When I make breakfast for my kids it's really brunch and is ready around noon. At that point, they've been up for a while, and they are hungry. I see no reason to force someone to wake up and eat before they are ready.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:OP’s family is certainly not Asian.


Racist. You're making assumptions based on race. We're an Asian family, and our teens are free to wake up whenever they damm well want on the weekends.
Anonymous
+1 to the what other type of eggs are there, that was my first reaction.

+ another 1 to why would you try to force a happy breakfast for kids who don't need or want it? Not sure you're an ahole but you are clueless

+even more to the moms of kids waking at 5am. We are a little past that but not so much that I feel the need to force family time at 9am yet
Anonymous
Firstly of all, teens suck. Second, choose your battles.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:AITA? I wouldnt put is this harshly, but yes, you are. Thats way too early to wake up your kids on a weekend. When I make breakfast for my kids it's really brunch and is ready around noon. At that point, they've been up for a while, and they are hungry. I see no reason to force someone to wake up and eat before they are ready.


This is how we do it, too. One of us frequently makes a nice brunch on the weekend for all of us (parents and teens) but can't remember the last time we ate it at 9 a.m. (Maybe Christmas or another holiday when we all had other reasons to be up?) Otherwise it's more like 11:30 or noon. The early-rising breakfast-eaters eat cereal when they get up, and everyone is ready for a nicer meal together later.

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