Can we pool our ideas and create a ''have a go'' list?
A couple of days a week my young male teen has had to entertain himself for several hours while I am working. His friends are all coming round and it is increasingly apparant that they are becoming bored with electronica but do not seem to have any clue what to do with themselves with limited funds. I've created a monster, by over-entertaining him obviously and not encouraging boredome and therefore creativity, but to be fair, his friends are the same, so I am not alone :)
Help me kick-start their imaginiations and come up with some low (no) cost activities which they can keep themselves occupied! Please bear in mind they are still YOUNG teenagers. AND they are boys so not lilely to be engaged by quietly sitting and making friendship bracelets.
I want a list, dammit! What did we all do in the 70s??? Remember, when we only had 3 channels and kids' tv stopped 12?
Today I left them playing a bored board game
2: cloud watching
3: baking (can I trust them not to burn the house down?)
4:.........
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Why Don't You switch off your television set and go and do....:) what can 13-yr-olds do to entertain themselves this summer?
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F1lthym1ndedvixen · 09/08/2011 19:21
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