What is your before school routine?

bagpuss38

moomoomama27 wrote: »

I have 3 children to get to school!

I get up at 6am, get lunchboxes done, put washing on and sort out anything that needs sorting!

I then workout for 45 mins, shower and get dressed and wake the children up between 7-7.30am, breakfast them and get them washed dressed (well the younger 2!) scream several times at the teen, and then by 7.30 threaten no pocket money EVER and she normally surfaces.
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It's normally very organised and I normally have 15 mins to sit down and read with the little 2 before leaving at 8.40am.

I bow down to you the only workout i have is lifting coffee to mouth

Madmel

Interesting reading this...

DD2 is 11 and a morning person. Her alarm goes off at 6. She might have a shower & wash her hair or just lies in bed listening to the radio. My alarm goes off at 6.15 then again at 6.17 and 6.20. By 6.21 I'm in the shower and out before 6.30. I wake up DD1 who is 13 and could sleep for England unless she has already decided to wash her hair, in which case my shower has been almost cold because our water system can't cope with 2 showers at the same time...!

DH gets up around 6.30, washes, shaves & dresses and leaves by 6.50. He doesn't do breakfast. DD2 will go down & do music practice for 20 minutes, occasionally if she is drying her hair, DD1 will do some instead. I come down around 6.45, put clean dishes away, empty breadmaker, make breakfast for girls and packed lunches for them. I know they are old enough to do their own but the kitchen is tiny and it's easier if I do it. They eat then go up to pack their bags, clean teeth, do hair etc around 7.15 then one or even both will do more music practice whilst I eat. I wash up and get ready to go out. On days when I'm teaching at their school we pack the car [instruments!] and leave around 7.45. When I'm not working, like today, we leave at 7.55 to drive to the next village to catch the school bus.

It works for us and on the rare occasion where we have overslept, the music practice is our "safety valve" - they do it in the evening instead after homework. No TV whatsoever in the mornings here, and if they bicker, I get to choose the music in the car on the way to school, and boy, does my iPod have some eclectic stuff on it!

thunderbird

nonnatus wrote: »

I've NEVER had a problem with rush and fluster in the mornings. I've always expected the kids to be self-sufficient and responsible for getting themselves prepared for the day. I've honestly NEVER checked a morning school bag or PE Kit! From the beginning, they learned quickly that if they weren't organised, they would get in trouble at school.
They ask (with a reasonable time scale - NOT2 hrs before) for PE Kits to be washed and they always are. Soooo....

Daughter 15, Son 14,
Dogs get me up around 4.30am. I potter down stairs and let them out. While kettle boils, I lay out some lunch box stuff and the evening bus fare. (I Don't MAKE sandwiches or anything, it's fruit, cheese, crisps and bottled water etc)

Switch heating on and curl up with dogs and tea, watching whatever I recorded on the TV night before (because I fall asleep around 8pm due to getting up so stoopidly early!!)
I hear kids alarms around 6am.
6-6.30am is my slot in the shower.
From 7-7.45 I'm at the computer organising work for the day ahead, sending e-mails etc.
Kids appear at 7.45 looking bright and (even though I'm biased) GORGEOUS, all ready for the day.
Into car at 7.50 for 15 minute drive to school. Whole journey is full of chit-chat about the day ahead, which bus they want to catch home, any after school appointments.
I get home 8.30 relaxed and ready to start work.

My children stay with their Dad every other weekend and school mornings THERE are "CHAOTIC" according to them!

I'm VERY smug, yes :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

A 14 and a 15 year old who engage in chitchat. You rightly deserve to feel smug