Question for middle school parents - do you wake your kids up?

[always quiet]

Many of my kids' friends set their own alarms in the mornings, make their own breakfast and pack their own lunches. Am I the only parent out there who still does these things for her kids? I know they are plenty big enough to do these things, but I like seeing them off in the morning, making sure they have a good breakfast and lunch.

Anyone else out there do these "mom" things?

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

Not me. DD uses her alarm to get up. She won't eat that early in the am, though I do try. I do drive her to school.

 

[MAC3]

Hi,

I still wake up my daughter, make her lunch, she wears a uniform so I still make sure her clothes are ready.

This year I started letting her get her own breakfast together.

I take her to school and walk her right to the door(although she tells me that this must stop next year!!!) Oh well, I'll have to watch her enter the door from the rode. I've explained to her when I watch her enter the school I feel much better.

I think I may start over the summer to get her used to the alarm clock. I can see her just shutting it off. Going back to sleep. So no, right now you're not alone!

Lisa

 

[Blondie]

Both of my boys have their own alarm clocks and use them on school mornings. Since they insist on getting up at the unGodly hour of 5:30 for DS#1 and 6:15 for DS#2, they feed themselves. Ofcourse they are now 13 and 14. When they were in elementary school, I used to have to drag them out of bed.

I do however get up in time to pack their lunches, kiss them goodbye and watch them get on the school bus.

 

[Rollwithit]

Yep, I wake her up, pack her lunch, drive her to school (on my way to work), and wait until she's in the building before I pull away.

 

[Nancy]

I wake up everyone in the house, including my DH...they all sleep like logs and no one hears alarm clocks but me! My kids are high school, middle school and elementary...I do not make breakfast, they do that on their own. I do not pack lunches..they buy or if they want a lunch, they make it themselves. I drive the 2 older ones to school, youngest gets the bus.

 

[newholiday]

both DS & I get up at 6am - he gets his own clothes & breakfast, gets his lunch ready
I walk to the bus stop w/him at 710

 

[piratesmate]

I never had to wake DD for elem - she hated missing school back then. Things changed with middle school . . . . she hates school & some mornings it's all I can do to get her out the door. So yes, I wake her now.

She'll get her own breakfast & make her lunch if she has time, but I usually do it. (My fault because I personally can't stand eating a sandwich made the night before.)

Apart from all that, I like to be there to at least try to get her on an even keel in the AM - she rarely comes home happy anymore.

 

[Lynda Silk]

I wake my 12 yr old DS up and make his lunch. He gets his own breakfast (just cereal; he loves it!). I make sure he's packed up and kiss him good bye before he goes to school. Soon he'll be in high school and won't want me to do anything for him so I'm kind of cherishing this time when I can do something for him!

 

[tkd lisa]

I wake my DD (12) up. She gets her own breakfast about 1/2 the time. My DS is just finishing 5th grade, and I'm sure I"ll have to keep waking him up. He can sleep through his entire alarm cycle (5 minutes before it shuts off, I've checked!!)

DD has asked to catch the bus at home next year (it would come about 20 minutes after we leave). I've told her when she can get up with the alarm for 30 days, we'll do a trial run, but if I have to come home and get her because she missed the bus, she'll have to start all over again.

As far as lunches, I buy them. If they really hate the choices, they can make their own. Middle school always offers cheese sandwiches though, so DD has just had that when she doesn't like the menu.

 

[hockeymom7691]

I have to wake my DS (12) up every morning and it is no fun trying to wake him up! He wears hearing aid and of course takes them out at night, he would never hear the alarm. Once he's awake he's on his own to make his own breakfast and then I was driving him to school. Last week he started walking to school on his own and even gets up better than he ever did!!

We'll see how well he wakes up next school year!

 

[MAC3]

Originally posted by piratesmate
(My fault because I personally can't stand eating a sandwich made the night before.)

I thought I was the only one that can't stand letting sandwiches sit overnight

Originally posted by piratesmate
(she rarely comes home happy anymore.

Poor kid, I feel so bad for her. School is so tough on them. Here's hoping next year will be better for her!

 

[phorsenuf]

I wake them both up and usually make their breakfast too (depends on what they are having). I don't mind, I'll do anything at this point so I can still be a "mommy" to them. They grow up soooo fast! They eat lunch at school, so no making it here in the morning......

 

[Briar Rose 7457]

my girls set the alarm, but since I have to leave for work around the time they have to get up for school, I check up on them.

lunches are usually made the night before.

they're supposed to take the bus to school, but my mom or my sister will drive them to school if they want/need a ride.

 

[powellrj]

I'm a morning person, so I wake everyone up but they get their own breakfast and buy lunch at school. I usually leave for work as the last one gets on the bus, so its a team effort.

 

[Rock'n Robin]

I get up at 6 so I go in and flip the light on in DD#1's room. I leave before she does though. Both girls make their own lunches.
Robin M.

 

[dizneenut]

I wake all my boys up (they go to 4 different schools and leave at diff. times), make lunches the night before, and get them their breakfast.

 

[Barb D]

12yo DS usually wakes himself up before I'm up. I almost always have to wake 10yo DD up. This last school year they went to school two days a week (and were homeschooled the rest of the week). They set out their uniforms and made their own lunches the night before. Next year they'll be in public school with a cafeteria. I'm guessing that DS will buy his lunch most days, but DD is a mostly-vegetarian, so we'll have to see what her lunchtime options are. She may resort to making her own lunches. They'll still lay their clothes out the night before. I hate nothing more than rushing around at the last minute trying to find clothes or shoes or whatever.

They've been doing their own breakfasts forever. In fact, one of them will usually get bfast for 4yo DD, too.

 

[N.Bailey]

My daughter sets her alarm so she can get up, shower and all that, then my alarm goes off about 45 minutes after hers did. I then get my son up and into the shower. He is one cranky boy on school days! LOL They were both in 6th grade this past school year and because they ate lunch at 10:30, neither of them wanted breakfast. Some mornings they'd grab a Pop Tart, or a doughnut, but mostly they didn't want anything. They bought their lunch at school too because here, cool kids don't pack! LOL I would then drive them to school. If they took the bus, they'd have to leave here about 35 minutes earlier for a 5 minute ride to school? I guess they took them early so they could get back through to pick the elementary kids up.

I don't think I'd trust them to get themselves off alone. They probably wouldn't disappoint me, but I'd worry all day.