Anonymous
02/06/2026 22:02
Subject: Are there people who truly have sit down breakfasts with time to read the newspaper before work and school?
Anonymous wrote: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.
Waking a teen at 6:00 am so they can have a leisurely sit down family breakfast on a weekday? This is one of the most insane things I’ve ever read on DCUM, and I’ve been here for a long time. Including on the soccer forum.
Pp sounds like a control freak who is going to be “baffled” why her children never want to come back to visit once they leave home
Anonymous
02/06/2026 19:14
Subject: Are there people who truly have sit down breakfasts with time to read the newspaper before work and school?
Anonymous wrote:I didn’t grow up with sit down breakfasts before school so maybe there’s a step I am missing. I’ve been trying to nail this down for over 20years even before I had kids. I’ve tried starting hours early. Something inevitably throws off the experience. I tried when I had just one kid, I tried with two, now with three. They are 16, 12, and 8.
How are people doing this? Is it just a tv/movies experience?!
Get up early… 🤦♂️
Anonymous
02/06/2026 18:58
Subject: Are there people who truly have sit down breakfasts with time to read the newspaper before work and school?
Anonymous wrote: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.
Waking a teen at 6:00 am so they can have a leisurely sit down family breakfast on a weekday? This is one of the most insane things I’ve ever read on DCUM, and I’ve been here for a long time. Including on the soccer forum.
I’m not convinced these posts are real. I do not know a single family that all sit together and have a warm “American Breakfast” everyday. When kids were little everyone I knew had staggered schedules due to school/daycare pickup and drop off. Older kids start school very early here. Getting them up early enough would be impossible .
Anonymous
02/06/2026 18:33
Subject: Are there people who truly have sit down breakfasts with time to read the newspaper before work and school?
No one in our house likes breakfast enough to care about this.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 18:29
Subject: Are there people who truly have sit down breakfasts with time to read the newspaper before work and school?
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.
Waking a teen at 6:00 am so they can have a leisurely sit down family breakfast on a weekday? This is one of the most insane things I’ve ever read on DCUM, and I’ve been here for a long time. Including on the soccer forum.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 18:07
Subject: Are there people who truly have sit down breakfasts with time to read the newspaper before work and school?
I think in the mid-West? The work hours there are less intense than Northeast/Atlantic seaboard.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 18:04
Subject: Are there people who truly have sit down breakfasts with time to read the newspaper before work and school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kids do club swim with AM practice. There is no time.
Just get the whole family up at 3 am, there’s always time 🥹 Won’t somebody think of the children?
You’re missing the point. “I don’t want to” =/= “there’s no time”.
And here I was, thinking that adding /s was too heavy-handed.
I mean it’s obvious that you were being facetious, but at the same time if it’s too early for breakfast maybe consider that it’s too early for swim practice.
Sorry you’re not as clever as you think you are.
PP doesn’t control when swim team practice is, dipshit.
But they do control whether they choose to have their child participate in that activity. Sleep is continually treated as a luxury in our society. I think a lot of the problems kids have today are due to lack of adequate sleep. There are other ways to be fit and healthy beyond swim team.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 17:52
Subject: Are there people who truly have sit down breakfasts with time to read the newspaper before work and school?
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.
What time does the 13 yo go to bed?
Anonymous
02/06/2026 17:46
Subject: Are there people who truly have sit down breakfasts with time to read the newspaper before work and school?
People still read the newspaper?
Anonymous
02/06/2026 17:45
Subject: Are there people who truly have sit down breakfasts with time to read the newspaper before work and school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kids do club swim with AM practice. There is no time.
Just get the whole family up at 3 am, there’s always time 🥹 Won’t somebody think of the children?
You’re missing the point. “I don’t want to” =/= “there’s no time”.
And here I was, thinking that adding /s was too heavy-handed.
I mean it’s obvious that you were being facetious, but at the same time if it’s too early for breakfast maybe consider that it’s too early for swim practice.
Sorry you’re not as clever as you think you are.
PP doesn’t control when swim team practice is, dipshit.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 17:43
Subject: Are there people who truly have sit down breakfasts with time to read the newspaper before work and school?
Anonymous wrote:I didn’t grow up with sit down breakfasts before school so maybe there’s a step I am missing. I’ve been trying to nail this down for over 20years even before I had kids. I’ve tried starting hours early. Something inevitably throws off the experience. I tried when I had just one kid, I tried with two, now with three. They are 16, 12, and 8.
How are people doing this? Is it just a tv/movies experience?!
We "sit down" and "eat" but it is never "together at the same time" in the mornings and sitting is done at the counter stools, not a table. And we scroll the news/social media.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 17:40
Subject: Are there people who truly have sit down breakfasts with time to read the newspaper before work and school?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:My kids do club swim with AM practice. There is no time.
Just get the whole family up at 3 am, there’s always time 🥹 Won’t somebody think of the children?
You’re missing the point. “I don’t want to” =/= “there’s no time”.
And here I was, thinking that adding /s was too heavy-handed.
I mean it’s obvious that you were being facetious, but at the same time if it’s too early for breakfast maybe consider that it’s too early for swim practice.
Sorry you’re not as clever as you think you are.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 17:38
Subject: Are there people who truly have sit down breakfasts with time to read the newspaper before work and school?
My parents did this every day when I was a kid. Now that they are retired, they go lover get the newspaper but read the news on their iPads and do the same thing over breakfast and coffee.
I’ve become a morning person as I’ve become older and wake up between 5 and 5:30. I spend about 45 minutes on my phone, reading news or just scrolling and drinking coffee before showering and getting reading for work. I eat breakfast a few hours later, at my desk at work. My kids are old enough to get themselves up and ready for school.
I’ve become a morning person as I’ve become older and wake up between 5 and 5:30. I spend about 45 minutes on my phone, reading news or just scrolling and drinking coffee before showering and getting reading for work. I eat breakfast a few hours later, at my desk at work. My kids are old enough to get themselves up and ready for school.
Anonymous
02/06/2026 17:28
Subject: Are there people who truly have sit down breakfasts with time to read the newspaper before work and school?
What the heck is a “newspaper”??
Anonymous
02/06/2026 17:28
Subject: Are there people who truly have sit down breakfasts with time to read the newspaper before work and school?
Yes.
I don't work full time, and chose to live a smaller life to reduce my stress and relax.
I don't work full time, and chose to live a smaller life to reduce my stress and relax.