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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can definitely start working towards this independence early.  My kids have been getting their own breakfasts ([b]generally cereal or toasting a waffle[/b]) since early elementary.  Around 1-3rd grade we had charts for them to go through their morning responsibilities -- dress, wash, feed pets, make bed, brush hair, etc.  They are in 5th and 7th now and it's been years since we had to do anything in the a.m. other than review what they have completed.

If they bring lunch, that gets discussed/packed the night before with me, but mostly they prefer to buy at school so the lunch packing is more a summer camp thing.[/quote]

My issue is that I want my kids to have a big, healthy breakfast... so that means I am stuck cooking the oats, making the pancake/waffle batter, frying the eggs and sausages, dishing out the yogurt and granola.  If I gave them the choice to make their own breakfasts, they would just eat a bowl of plain cereal and milk every. single. morning.  Luckily, I don't have to leave for work until 8:30, so it is easy for me to make breakfast and pack lunches.  Everything else, the kids can do on their own... they know they have to be downstairs and ready for breakfast around 8am.  Once we finish up, I leave for work at 8:30, and they go outside and shoot baskets or something for about 15 minutes before heading off to school on their bikes at 8:45.

They are in 4th and 5th grade (both boys).

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You could make most of thes things on the weekend and stick them in the refrigerator for your kids to reheat each morning.[/quote]

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