Don't be sad Cass, I really don't think it's laziness. There's way more to it than that. Although, I'm pretty sure that the 40 percent of millennials they surveyed who don't eat cereal for breakfast because they have to clean up afterwards were males
As far as the survey, and the results, eh, I think it's flawed.
First off, I won't defend breakfast cereal as a good, nutritional choice. It's low in protein, usually high in sugar, and high in carbs. It's simply not filling and in fact, eating something like this in the am can spike blood sugar and then cause it to drop mid morning. Even if I poured the bowl for them and cleaned up after them, my two teenagers would not want breakfast cereal for breakfast. However, they will eat cereal as a snack in the evening.
Second, I'm willing to bet that most of those people they surveyed do not even eat breakfast in the morning.
Third, I also think that, at least for teenagers, their whole internal clock starts to get screwed up. They have done studies that show that teenagers have a spike in alertness in the evenings and they're not even sleepy until 11- 12 at night. High School typically starts early, usually 7-730 am, so kids are getting up at 630 am, and they still need 8-9 hours of sleep that they're not getting. So they get up super early, rush out the door, with no breakfast. It's easier to grab a granola bar or a protein bar and eat it on the way to school.
On a side note, up until 2 years ago, we lived in a house with no garbage disposal. The house was in a woody area, and we had a septic system, rather than access to a public sewer. My kids never got the hang of how much milk to put in the cereal, so when they were done, there was always a bit of milk and some floaty bits of cereal. You couldn't dump this in the sink because of the floaty cereal bits, it would screw up the septic system, but you couldn't dump it into the trash because of the liquid, and the risk of too much liquid in the trashbag possibly causing the bag to break. So it was a delicate operation, you would have to somehow drain the milk into the sink without allowing any solids to get in there, too. We did have a drain plug in there to catch stuff, but that became a gooey task to clean out as well. So, yeah, cereal in a house with no garbage disposal is a pain in the ass, and not very filling.
Oh, and today's breakfast, scrambled eggs, sausage, cut up pineapple and Coffee