My kids leave our house for the bus at 7:23. They get up at 6:45. They're all girls and that is plenty of time to get ready and eat breakfast.

We're a 45-60 minute family in the morning. My youngest moves SLOW, but my older one is quicker.

We leave the house at 7:20, so my kids get up at 6:30am. We don't do tv in the morning because turning it off is always an issue and I'm not starting that game. Mainly because if they got behind by 10 minutes, then there'd be a fit about NOT getting tv because we're late. So we just don't do it.

I want them downstairs by 6:50am, but the latest is 7am. 10 minutes for breakfast, then brush teeth/shoes and out the door. It's much nicer when they are ready for breakfast before 7am, but sometimes it doesn't happen.

Anonymous wrote:Who are all these kids that you have to wake up?! That would be heaven. Mine are up by 5:30am.

To answer the question though, I would allow 40 minutes.

Haha my first used to wake up at 430. Then it became 530. I have been consistently woken up by 6am since becoming a mother. My oldest is now a teen and can sleep in. He has no problems waking up at 7 on his own with his alarm clock to go to high school by 8. His bus comes at 7:35.

I remember we used to go to Disney and rope drop would be at 7. I never had to wake up my kids because they were always awake by 6. I am the only sleepyhead in my house.

14 years old with ADHD gets ready in 30 minutes. He watches his phone if he’s ready before we need to leave.

Why do people need screens so much? An elementary aged child does not need to watch tv before school.

10-15 to eat breakfast

Anonymous wrote:My kids can get out the door in 10 minutes. They would not need an hour.

Why does your kid need to watch tv in the morning before school before 7am?????

Me again. Kids wake up roughly 30 min before they need to leave the house. 1-15 min to eat breakfast, 10 minutes to brush teeth and get dressed, 5 minutes to get things to go and then we leave.

My kids can get out the door in 10 minutes. They would not need an hour.

Why does your kid need to watch tv in the morning before school before 7am?????

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Team 35 minutes. Shiwer then sleep in next morning's clothes.

Nasty

We don't do this but I don't see how this can be "nasty" if the kids are showering and then putting on clean clothes and sleeping in clean sheets. The kid will probably sweat a little in his sleep into his clothes, but until the puberty hormones kick in, that sweat is going to be no big deal and certainly not smelly.

Many parent don't even have their kids shower nightly -- a kid who showers and then wears school clothes to bed is going to be cleaner than a kid who doesn't shower at all, even if that kid is wearing PJs and putting on fresh clothes in the morning.

I have an ADHD kid and I can absolutely get her out the door in 30 minutes, though I have to be extremely hands on to make it happen.

We used to get her up earlier but then what happens is that I'm trying to get her ready and myself ready at the same time, and there is more time to get frustrated (both her and us). Also more opportunities for distraction. Like I would NEVER let my ADHD kid watch TV in the morning -- this is a surefire way to prompt a meltdown when she then has to turn off the TV and go to school. Maybe some ND kids don't get sucked into TV enough for that to be the case, but I cannot imagine putting her in front of a screen at that time of the day.

Here's our 30 minute routine:
15 minutes breakfast
5 minutes brush teeth and hair (I help)
5 minutes get dressed (clothes laid out night before, I help)
5 minutes shoes/coat/backpack

The key is having everything set up beforehand and keeping the order of events very consistent -- any change in schedule is likely to distract her.

We do 6:45. He wears his school clothes to bed. I just do an ego pancake and I also make his lunch in that time. We have two other kids we are juggling but it’s still manageable.

MY DD K-8 school bus came at around that time. we got up 6:30-
6:30-645 get ready
650-710 breakfast and take medicine
715 bus stop
720 bus arrived
No tv we just talked

Anonymous wrote:Team 35 minutes. Shiwer then sleep in next morning's clothes.

Nasty

I don’t care if this is an old thread btw. It’s helpful to read again. Thank you to whomever resurrected it

It’s so variable. ADHD kiddo can melt down last minute and add an extra 5-120 mins to routine. Getting them regulated is often precarious. Any not tardy day is a HUGE victory.