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[quote=Anonymous]I have always had to do mornings solo for our three kids because DH leaves for work before they're even up. I second all of the great advice above about prepping as much as possible the night before.

We don't do ANY screen time at all in the morning even if someone wakes up way early -- for us it makes it way worse in terms of keeping focus. I've had to learn and re-learn this the hard way several times before it became an iron-clad rule. If someone is awake early, they can read or play quietly but screen time is not an option. If they're that bored that they won't do either, they are more than welcome to go back to sleep.

One thing that helped us was morning to-do lists for the kids, put in plastic sheet protectors and posted prominently upstairs on a wardrobe next to the bathroom. For the non-reading, the tasks are visual -- a picture of a toothbrush for brush teeth, etc. We had morning, afternoon (home from school), and evening lists made. Because I am completely un-crafty, but I also wanted to customize the to-do lists to fit my kids' responsibilities, instead of buying pre-made lists I got a seller on Etsy to do custom printable graphics for me and it was pretty cheap. With the lists, that way I could point the kids towards their jobs without having to ride them every second.[/quote]

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