How To: Get Your Teenage Daughter/s to Eat Breakfast.

We would all like to have the ideal of having a sit down breakfast all together as a family but with today’s busy lifestyles this is not always possible and sometimes near impossible. Here are several tips of how you can give your daughter the most important meal of the day….take your pick or for variety try them all!


Find out your daughter’s favourite food even if it doesn’t fit with the traditional and conventional type of breakfast food. Surprise her by preparing it for her the next morning.

Tempt her with a smorgasbord of nutritious food (like your own breakfast buffet) well before she stirs in the morning, so she comes into the kitchen with a table already laid out.

Copy your daughter’s style…..have a ‘stash’ of healthy breakfast bars or muffins in a basket. Put it on the kitchen table or in an obviously visible place such as the hallway.

Whip up a fruit smoothie. The quicker she can eat or drink it – the more likely she will have it.

Pack your daughter’s ‘breakfast’ with her lunch and recess. She will more likely eat it when on route to school.

A basket full of a variety of fruit often does the trick.

Wake her up a half an hour earlier with breakfast on a tray.



If your daughter still won’t eat anything……seek medical advice.


Copyright 2006. Rebecca Laklem