Anonymous wrote:I love this except in my house (7 and 4 year old) you'd have to add:

6:35-7:05 Kids engage in fighting/discussion/crying, either with each other or Parent 2, over a) whether today is a weekend or not; b) whether Parent 1 is actually in the shower, has already taken a shower and just has not come out of the bathroom yet, or has yet to take a shower - in which case "I want Parent 1 to show me how to solve a Rubik's cube;" or c) whether bagels are a breakfast food, a lunch food, or a brunch food, followed by a discussion of potential names for hybrid animals.

So that pushes our time out the door back quite significantly. Omg yes! I have a 7yo.

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Anonymous wrote:As I read it, all four of you are sitting down together for 30 minutes to eat? If so, Parent 1 could maybe get another 15 minutes of sleep if they only made breakfast while the kids dressed, then ate their breakfast in the kitchen while heating lunches. Parent 2 could sit down with the kids.

I think the 30-minute-mornings people make full lunches the night before, grab a pre-made breakfast on the go, and have kids who don't need help getting dressed. They do as much as possible the night before, everyone's tasks happen in parallel, and there's no kitchen time at all.

If your family can't manage all that, then you have to live with the current schedule, and make the most of that half-hour at the table together before you go your separate ways.

Yes, as I said earlier, I think we just move on and appreciate our breakfast-time together. We could manage the grabbing stuff and running out the door but I'm not sure it's worth the extra 30 minutes of sleep.

Does your whole family really sit and eat together for 30 min in the morning for breakfast?

I have 3 kids and I'm a SAHM. DH is out the door before kids eat breakfast. I put a hot breakfast on the table and kids eat while I'm packing their lunches and snacks for the day. The whole process takes 30 min. No way am I sitting with them at the table for 30 min.

Yup, we all sit together for 30 minutes. Why, if you stay at home, is there no way you'd sit with your kids for 30 minutes? As I'm thinking about it more, we have very different conversations about at breakfast than we do at dinner. At breakfast we talk about things that are coming up, make plans, and are generally sillier. At dinner, it's more often reporting back on things that have happened during the day, etc...

This is such a stupid post, one of the worst I've read on here. You are asking how to make the mornings go quicker. Don't sit and eat breakfast for 30 min!!!! Don't shower in the morning. Sheesh.

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Wow what? OP has 2 parents at home leisurely eating family breakfast for 30 min and she is asking how to make it go quicker. Obvious answers are to shower at night, pack lunch at night and not sit and eat for 30 minutes.

My kids crawl in bed with me every morning. They play. We eat. We get ready. Some days are more rushed than others. The kids wake up anytime between 6 and 7:30. If they aren’t up by 7:30, I wake them up.

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Anonymous wrote:As I read it, all four of you are sitting down together for 30 minutes to eat? If so, Parent 1 could maybe get another 15 minutes of sleep if they only made breakfast while the kids dressed, then ate their breakfast in the kitchen while heating lunches. Parent 2 could sit down with the kids.

I think the 30-minute-mornings people make full lunches the night before, grab a pre-made breakfast on the go, and have kids who don't need help getting dressed. They do as much as possible the night before, everyone's tasks happen in parallel, and there's no kitchen time at all.

If your family can't manage all that, then you have to live with the current schedule, and make the most of that half-hour at the table together before you go your separate ways.

Yes, as I said earlier, I think we just move on and appreciate our breakfast-time together. We could manage the grabbing stuff and running out the door but I'm not sure it's worth the extra 30 minutes of sleep.

Does your whole family really sit and eat together for 30 min in the morning for breakfast?

I have 3 kids and I'm a SAHM. DH is out the door before kids eat breakfast. I put a hot breakfast on the table and kids eat while I'm packing their lunches and snacks for the day. The whole process takes 30 min. No way am I sitting with them at the table for 30 min.

Yup, we all sit together for 30 minutes. Why, if you stay at home, is there no way you'd sit with your kids for 30 minutes? As I'm thinking about it more, we have very different conversations about at breakfast than we do at dinner. At breakfast we talk about things that are coming up, make plans, and are generally sillier. At dinner, it's more often reporting back on things that have happened during the day, etc...

This is such a stupid post, one of the worst I've read on here. You are asking how to make the mornings go quicker. Don't sit and eat breakfast for 30 min!!!! Don't shower in the morning. Sheesh.

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Anonymous wrote:I love this except in my house (7 and 4 year old) you'd have to add:

6:35-7:05 Kids engage in fighting/discussion/crying, either with each other or Parent 2, over a) whether today is a weekend or not; b) whether Parent 1 is actually in the shower, has already taken a shower and just has not come out of the bathroom yet, or has yet to take a shower - in which case "I want Parent 1 to show me how to solve a Rubik's cube;" or c) whether bagels are a breakfast food, a lunch food, or a brunch food, followed by a discussion of potential names for hybrid animals.

So that pushes our time out the door back quite significantly.

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Anonymous wrote:As I read it, all four of you are sitting down together for 30 minutes to eat? If so, Parent 1 could maybe get another 15 minutes of sleep if they only made breakfast while the kids dressed, then ate their breakfast in the kitchen while heating lunches. Parent 2 could sit down with the kids.

I think the 30-minute-mornings people make full lunches the night before, grab a pre-made breakfast on the go, and have kids who don't need help getting dressed. They do as much as possible the night before, everyone's tasks happen in parallel, and there's no kitchen time at all.

If your family can't manage all that, then you have to live with the current schedule, and make the most of that half-hour at the table together before you go your separate ways.

Yes, as I said earlier, I think we just move on and appreciate our breakfast-time together. We could manage the grabbing stuff and running out the door but I'm not sure it's worth the extra 30 minutes of sleep.

Does your whole family really sit and eat together for 30 min in the morning for breakfast?

I have 3 kids and I'm a SAHM. DH is out the door before kids eat breakfast. I put a hot breakfast on the table and kids eat while I'm packing their lunches and snacks for the day. The whole process takes 30 min. No way am I sitting with them at the table for 30 min.

Yup, we all sit together for 30 minutes. Why, if you stay at home, is there no way you'd sit with your kids for 30 minutes? As I'm thinking about it more, we have very different conversations about at breakfast than we do at dinner. At breakfast we talk about things that are coming up, make plans, and are generally sillier. At dinner, it's more often reporting back on things that have happened during the day, etc...

This is such a stupid post, one of the worst I've read on here. You are asking how to make the mornings go quicker. Don't sit and eat breakfast for 30 min!!!! Don't shower in the morning. Sheesh.

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Anonymous wrote:A half hour to eat seems luxurious if you're trying to streamline. How old are your kids?

Kids are 4 and 7. They mostly get ready on their own with some encouragement. I still need to do the 4 year old's hair. Possible we could streamline the breakfast/lunch prep by having both parents working on that while the kids are getting themselves ready.

The 30 minutes to eat does seem awfully long, but even with that, it seems like we're always rushing the kids to finish up and get out the door. I guess the bright side is that our kids like to sit at the table and chat...

I think you either need to shorten breakfast (it takes <10 minutes to eat some scrambled eggs and toast) OR just appreciate the chatty, long breakfasts and enjoy them. Maybe wake everyone up 10 minutes sooner if you're feeling crunched.

Your kids are older than mine so maybe this doesn't work anymore but sometimes we have our 4 and 2 year old sleep in their clothes. Especially in the summer when it's just t shirts and running shorts half the time anyway.

yeah, I guess it is what it is. I was just reading on another post about 30-40 minute morning routines and thinking wistfully of sleeping until 7!

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Anonymous wrote:As I read it, all four of you are sitting down together for 30 minutes to eat? If so, Parent 1 could maybe get another 15 minutes of sleep if they only made breakfast while the kids dressed, then ate their breakfast in the kitchen while heating lunches. Parent 2 could sit down with the kids.

I think the 30-minute-mornings people make full lunches the night before, grab a pre-made breakfast on the go, and have kids who don't need help getting dressed. They do as much as possible the night before, everyone's tasks happen in parallel, and there's no kitchen time at all.

If your family can't manage all that, then you have to live with the current schedule, and make the most of that half-hour at the table together before you go your separate ways.

Yes, as I said earlier, I think we just move on and appreciate our breakfast-time together. We could manage the grabbing stuff and running out the door but I'm not sure it's worth the extra 30 minutes of sleep.

Does your whole family really sit and eat together for 30 min in the morning for breakfast?

I have 3 kids and I'm a SAHM. DH is out the door before kids eat breakfast. I put a hot breakfast on the table and kids eat while I'm packing their lunches and snacks for the day. The whole process takes 30 min. No way am I sitting with them at the table for 30 min.

Yup, we all sit together for 30 minutes. Why, if you stay at home, is there no way you'd sit with your kids for 30 minutes? As I'm thinking about it more, we have very different conversations about at breakfast than we do at dinner. At breakfast we talk about things that are coming up, make plans, and are generally sillier. At dinner, it's more often reporting back on things that have happened during the day, etc...

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Anonymous wrote:As I read it, all four of you are sitting down together for 30 minutes to eat? If so, Parent 1 could maybe get another 15 minutes of sleep if they only made breakfast while the kids dressed, then ate their breakfast in the kitchen while heating lunches. Parent 2 could sit down with the kids.

I think the 30-minute-mornings people make full lunches the night before, grab a pre-made breakfast on the go, and have kids who don't need help getting dressed. They do as much as possible the night before, everyone's tasks happen in parallel, and there's no kitchen time at all.

If your family can't manage all that, then you have to live with the current schedule, and make the most of that half-hour at the table together before you go your separate ways.

Yes, as I said earlier, I think we just move on and appreciate our breakfast-time together. We could manage the grabbing stuff and running out the door but I'm not sure it's worth the extra 30 minutes of sleep.

Does your whole family really sit and eat together for 30 min in the morning for breakfast?

I have 3 kids and I'm a SAHM. DH is out the door before kids eat breakfast. I put a hot breakfast on the table and kids eat while I'm packing their lunches and snacks for the day. The whole process takes 30 min. No way am I sitting with them at the table for 30 min.

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Anonymous wrote:As I read it, all four of you are sitting down together for 30 minutes to eat? If so, Parent 1 could maybe get another 15 minutes of sleep if they only made breakfast while the kids dressed, then ate their breakfast in the kitchen while heating lunches. Parent 2 could sit down with the kids.

I think the 30-minute-mornings people make full lunches the night before, grab a pre-made breakfast on the go, and have kids who don't need help getting dressed. They do as much as possible the night before, everyone's tasks happen in parallel, and there's no kitchen time at all.

If your family can't manage all that, then you have to live with the current schedule, and make the most of that half-hour at the table together before you go your separate ways.

Yes, as I said earlier, I think we just move on and appreciate our breakfast-time together. We could manage the grabbing stuff and running out the door but I'm not sure it's worth the extra 30 minutes of sleep.

Anonymous wrote:As I read it, all four of you are sitting down together for 30 minutes to eat? If so, Parent 1 could maybe get another 15 minutes of sleep if they only made breakfast while the kids dressed, then ate their breakfast in the kitchen while heating lunches. Parent 2 could sit down with the kids.

I think the 30-minute-mornings people make full lunches the night before, grab a pre-made breakfast on the go, and have kids who don't need help getting dressed. They do as much as possible the night before, everyone's tasks happen in parallel, and there's no kitchen time at all.

If your family can't manage all that, then you have to live with the current schedule, and make the most of that half-hour at the table together before you go your separate ways.