As always in the holidays, I’m questioning myself and how much I should insist ds14 actually spends time with us. He is a sporty lad, spends a lot of time in the garden or in the park. At home he is happy in his room either gaming or on his phone. He will come and eat with us in an evening and watch a bit of TV but other than that I feel like I barely see him.
I have younger dc (big age gap) so I get that he might not want to do days out or anything like that. But even getting him to come for a walk is a battle. This weekend I got sick of asking so I took the little ones out and when I got back 3 hours later he was still in the same spot gaming. It doesn’t sit well with me.
I have always tried to carve out one on one time with him to do things we can’t do with little ones like cinema or whatever but he doesn’t even seem interested in that now. Is this normal? How much involvement in family life do you expect your teens to have?