7 am get up
7-7:30 make bed, shower, dress, start coffeemaker
7:30 coffee, fruit and cereal, paper when there was one
8 walk to metro

Yes, we always have, pre-kids, during kids, now kids in college but when home - still sit down to breakfast together.
Mind you, no one reads the newspaper, those are for the aged, but we scroll and read news and talk about what we are seeing - and on Sundays listen to npr to do the puzzle.

I'm genx. From the time I was 9 I was expected to make my own breakfast and then get myself to school. My husband had a stay at home mom, and she didn't make a hot breakfast every morning either. Everyone was expected to come down and poor themselves a bowl of cereal.

No way was I making my kids and husband a hot, sit down breakfast every morning.

I don't know anybody IRL that does this. Even stay at home moms.

My kids wake up without alarms, but they’re young. Usually awake by 645, out the door by 730. We don’t read at the table but chat about the day ahead and pack lunches etc. The two hour delays were brutal bc kids would get into some activities they didn’t wanna stop and leaving at 730 was way easier than 930.

Pre-kids, I was a 5a exerciser. Now I’m usually a 5a quick home workout and then wfh til kids wake up.

Our struggle is getting the kids to bed early enough at night. Irrespective of bedtime, they never sleep past 7a. I haven’t set an alarm since my hospital training days when my sleep was all outta whack. We are just a family of early risers tho, and others are shocked that we do dinner at 515p.

Maybe I'm confused and there's a different modern definition for "newspaper" ... I haven't laid eyes on an actual newspaper in at least a decade and a half (???)

I forget what it was like while I was raising kids. Literally forget like I'm trying to block it out. Such years of chaos and autopilot. I have almost no recollection of the mornings.

I did later figure out that my ex was up at 4am to work out and shower before going to work because 5:30am was the only time he had to have sex in the office with his girlfriend before everyone else started arriving.

Anonymous wrote:Dont know many people who manage that, most families dont even have a real breakfast!

I lean heavily on hot breakfast versus any other stuff. Kids need good nutrition and hydration before trying to learn, especially any kids (like mine) who would rather talk at lunch than eat.

I make a lot of food from scratch due to allergies (eggs and peanuts) for breakfast so that's where my time and energy go at night. Also, if I wake up earlier my kids wake up earlier.

Source? Your 5 friends ?

I have always taken 20 mins to eat my breakfast and read something, basically my whole life, but honestly, it's almost always on the clock since I entered the working world. I get to work, I check email/slack/whatever, make sure nothing's on fire, then I sit and read the paper and eat my breakfast. It's usually something grab-and-go.

I would also say that while I've had a variety of jobs with a variety of levels of busy and a variety of numbers of hours in the week - my industry tends to get rolling later. So it's never been a big deal to take 20 first thing, even when I was working 60+ hours a week and was busy all the time.

If I wanted to do it before work, I'd just have to get up before the kids. My kids are way younger than yours, but need lots of hands on help in the morning. They're up at 7:30. As it stands now, I'm up at 7:20 cause I can get ready in 10 mins. If I wanted to eat breakfast and read, I'd just have to wake up at 7 (which I'm not willing to do).

This feels very manageable just because mornings are generally so predictable. Just get up 20 mins earlier and eat breakfast? What are these things that are "throwing off the experience"?

Eating a meal together every day is important to me, and my teens are often out of the house for sport or play practice, or other events, at dinner time, so we eat breakfast together before school. We do not read the newspaper. We talk about who is going where after school, and when they need to be picked up, and what forms they need signed.

I don't cook things in the morning, I just heat things up that I made on the weekend, or dump premade smoothie bags into the blender. I have one kid who is an early riser and sometimes scrambles eggs.

I have teen boys who are always hungry. Not being hungry in the morning is not a thing at our house.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:5 AM - wake up
5:30 - gym
6:15 - back home, breakfast, read
7 - get ready, watch morning news, listen to audiobook
8:15 - leave the house

Is your gym a 2 minute drive from your house? And you only workout for 25min or something? Confused by leaving for the gym and being home again 45min later. Unless the gym is less than 5 min from your door to being on the machines.

Not PP but these questions are why I figured out how to get a good workout in at home many years ago. You don't need that much equipment -- solid set of hand weights, a pull up bar, some resistance bands. It's so much more efficient. I can get up at 6 or even 6:30, get a 45 minute workout in, jump right in the shower, and still have time to eat breakfast and get ready before leaving for work at 8.

I did the morning gym routine for years in my 20s. Back then I lived with roommates in a house with little space for working out, and actually liked going to the gym just to get out of the house. But even then, I went to the gym on the way to work so it was more efficient. Now I have a kid so that would be harder to do without dumping the morning routine on my partner every morning. But I also have my own home with plenty of space to work out now, too, so I just have way less need for a gym membership. The idea of waking up at 5 to travel to the gym and then come back home to eat and get ready for work while also getting my kid out the door sounds awful to me.

Anonymous wrote:5 AM - wake up
5:30 - gym
6:15 - back home, breakfast, read
7 - get ready, watch morning news, listen to audiobook
8:15 - leave the house

So your spouse gets the kids up and makes the breakfast? And kids I’m assuming are fully independent getting ready for school since you’re watching the news etc during their get ready time? Just trying to visualize how this works

Anonymous wrote:Yes, we do it every day. Would the kids prefer to sleep an extra 30 minutes? Of course but mornings at the table are just as important as dinners.

I wake up at 5am and get myself totally ready and then get the kids up by 6. By 6:40 they are at the table where breakfast is totally made and plated (eggs, yogurt, fruit, etc). We read the headlines and then do a last minute prep for any tests that’s day.

They leave by 7:15 for school and I take the youngest to daycare at 7:30. (3 kids total ages 4, 8and 13)

No rush in the morning and everyone leaves calm and well fed.

That sounds like hell on earth. Since early teens I’ve had absolutely no appetite in the morning and just the thought of sitting to eat a big breakfast at 6 am (much less being forced to wake up every day to do so) makes me nauseous.

My DH or I will usually sit down with our DD while she eats. Sometimes I'll eat at the same time as her but sometimes I've already eaten (because I get up way before her and I work out so sometimes I'm too hungry to wait). If I am not eating I'll make tea and have that while she eats her breakfast. Sometimes we just sit with her, sometimes help with homework, sometimes she reads and we do work. It's much more casual than dinner for us. DD is a slow eater so many mornings I am encouraging her to focus on eating so we are not late to school.

But our breakfasts are very simple on weekdays -- oatmeal, cereal, maybe toast with some kind of protein topping. Occasionally I make muffins or a breakfast pastry that can be reheated and served with milk and fruit. Sometimes smoothies. But we save eggs, bacon, pancakes, etc. for the weekend when we have more time to eat.

It takes 10 min to eat a bowl of cereal.

Anonymous wrote:5 AM - wake up
5:30 - gym
6:15 - back home, breakfast, read
7 - get ready, watch morning news, listen to audiobook
8:15 - leave the house

Is your gym a 2 minute drive from your house? And you only workout for 25min or something? Confused by leaving for the gym and being home again 45min later. Unless the gym is less than 5 min from your door to being on the machines.