Yes ~ based on your schedule I would require the children to be fed prior to arriving to program ... if mother is a DR she should know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day and should be planned for in HER routine with them to establish healthy eating habits in her children ~ honestly when they are in school is she going to send them to school without breakfast cause she needs to be at work by 9 and they did not want to go to bed until 10 pm so she is dragging them out of bed in the morning ....whose the ADULT in these homes?

I think it was Barbara Colorosa who said 'A good day starts the night before' ... plan your day backwards if you need your child to be up and fed and out the door by 8:30 am and they need an hour to have time to do that with out stress and rushing than you need to be up by 7:30 am which means you need to be starting bedtime routine at 7pm so that they are in bed and calm and heading to sleep for 7:45 - 8 so they are getting enough sleep! If it being 'light' outside is a challenge get your kids BLACK OUT curtains for their bedroom so they are not affected ~ you do not just let them stay up to 10 pm when it gets dark naturally?

My schedule I have a couple clients who get 'away' without feeding them some mornings because we have morning snack which consists of breakfast like items at 8:45 - 9 am and their kids role out of bed at 8:15 and get dropped off just in time for morning snack.

I feed them roughly at 9, 12 and 3 because that is what works for my routine and schedule allowing for 3 hours between snacks and meals which is suggested to be a good 'stretch' for our insulin regulation / production and so forth.