What are your 7 year olds "into"?

[drspouse]

DS has SEN but to us, he's capable of holding a normal conversation. He tells us what he'll do when he's grown up and how we'll feed his dog, ask "what's college? How many years are there in school", tell us about funny things he saw on the TV.
At school apparently the other 7 year olds talk about football and Xbox. I don't really think even if he was neurotypical DS would be into those.
Apparently he talks to the adults about our cat and not to the other children at all.
With our DD who is 4, he plays pretend things, tig, he'll play running around games at Beavers. I can believe he doesn't have actual conversations at school but I'd like to help him to talk about things the other children might be talking about.

I think ds 7 and his friends spend time sharing half remembered facts from horrible histories. They are also into blue peter, and share things from that. No football knowledge at all. Or games, except starting to get into minecraft.
He likes animals and dinosaurs. They also play being dogs or soldiers. Just running round things really.

He does like a good poo joke (I use the term joke advisedly).
Not sure I can practice those with him!

DD loves jokes too! We get joke books out of the library and she has a few. I sometimes put one in her lunchbox too

I got some joke books a while back but they were a bit hard - they all seemed to be puns, or stuff that was current when I was at school (e.g. TV shows). I'll have a look around.

My 7 year old is mad into marvel at the moment especially with the new film coming out, they talk about that quite a lot. He also loves Lego and marvel Lego in particular. We help him make the sets and then he plays with them, he loves the minifigures. He also likes Jurassic world and has an x box which he plays Lego games on, he plays Lego marvel, Lego Harry Potter and Lego Jurassic world. He basically wakes up and talks about marvel and Lego all day long and then goes to bed 😂😩

My nearly 7yo. Is still playing with happyland toys, cuddly toys, pj masks.
She can do lego but generally doesnt.
Just getting more into nature.
So really nothing like the dc on here.
She does struggle with friendships

Mine loves nature and science. He got an ant farm for his birthday and told his friends he loves ants. 2 made up an ant dance as a surprise- he announced “and that’s why they’re my best friends.” For him, it’s not that he’s into the cool stuff, it’s that he gets so enthusiastic about it it becomes cool. He’d make up a dance about his best friends’ favourite thing too, and they’d appreciate it too!

My DS is 8. He is mad on football and F1. He collects match Attax cards. Also loves superhero's. Watches YouTube- kiddeis version, mainly Ryan toy review
His friends at school are into fort nite but I refuse to let him play it We have a PS 4 but he only plays golf and fifa on it (heavily supervised by his dad)

He’s very enthusiastic about football (zero knowledge but has convinced the pe teacher he can play so is on the team!) and minecraft/ Fortnite (never played either but has everyone convinced) too.

Mine's still obsessed with soft toys, but as realistic as possible! He has an array of plush reptiles and dinosaurs. Sensory issues due to ASD, the soft toys really appeal to that side.
Otherwise;
Dinosaurs
Science
Reptiles/nature generally
Science
Toilet humour
Fantastic Beasts/Harry Potter (just the films)
Star Wars
LEGO ALL DAY LONG
Lego video games he plays with DH. Lego Marvel/Jurassic World etc.
YouTube Kids, usually science or toy reviews.
Zero interest in sports.

His NT friends have some interests in common with him, but also football, gymnastics, musical instruments etc.

I'm afraid 7 (almost 8) year old DS is also football, Nintendo switch, Xbox mad

It’s weird what you wrote because my daughter has no SEN but is the same. She doesn’t seem to have much interest in the other children in her class, but loves chatting to her teacher about our cat and other things. She did sort of make a friend but the friend moved away much to DD’s relief. I just leave her to it. She’s a very smart girl, very beautiful actually. You’d think she’d be really popular but she’s just never been interested in making friends.

I meant to say that my daughter is also 7. She’s into Minecraft and animals. She likes drawing.

DS. 7. Sensory processing issues and maybe ADHD. Loves art, pokemon, Minecraft, animals and wildlife, Numberblocks, Midsummer Night's dream, fairies and we've just read the first 3 Harry potter books together. He could have read them to himself but i selfishly wanted to see his reaction to them. He is now obsessed. He struggles with friendships though. Desperately wants them but struggles with social boundaries and etiquette. He has lots to talk to others about but can't translate it into social currency.

Conversation here usually revolves around a stream of toilet humour, seeing who can do the loudest or best burp/fart....

My DD's are 10 and 6 (almost 7). Dd2 loves animals, Harry potter (more the concept she dips in and out of the films), watching other children play Minecraft on YouTube, Pokemon, lol dolls.

I try and take dds to see the newest films during the holidays or on cheap showings as they often feature in conversation/playtime at school. Despite me having a massive clown phobia I braved Dumbo this holiday!!!

Dd1 asks to watch the Simpsons each night as several of her friends do too so they chat about it. We also watch things like Britain's got talent which they like talking about.

My 7 yr old DS (with ASD) is obsessed with Minecraft. It’s difficult to get him to talk about anything else at the minute.

Football and Pokemon seem to be popular with his classmates.

My 7yo dd is into codes and spy games, playing out on her bike, lego, making up dances and watching you tube videos about practical jokes.

Horrible histories is a good idea.

We went with football cards at this age for our autistic DC. He liked the cards because they were full of numbers, his friends liked them for the football. It hasn't developed into a long term love of football but it was useful currency for him in Y3.

Pokemon (Go, on the DS/Switch, comics)
Terraria and Minecraft
Watching other people play minecraft and retro Nintendo games.
Lego
Hot wheels cars
Drawing
Dinosaurs
His electric guitar

He’s 7 1/4 and has ASD.

My 7 year old talks a lot about Zelda when with DS (9, but similar issues to your DS).
With her friends:
Lego,
robots,
Star Wars
Lord of the Rings
with her best friend a superhero they made up together,
animals (as in pretending to be),
slime
and general nonsense.
She's recently become interested in jokes. DS has too, but just says something funny/silly rather than a joke.
Drawing

I think DD is the only one in her class with a console (and we actually got it for DS to help with his coordination issues) and none of them watch stuff on YouTube.

DS is another issue, practically no one talks to him at school because he doesn't really know how to hold a conversation and no one understands him. Possibly because they have no idea that he's talking about a part of a satellite or engine or whatever machine he's currently inventing in his head. We've also had the teachers saying he talks about nonsense and have had to say no, he does actually mean what he's saying and explain. To which they responded, we didn't know he knew that type of vocab . I suppose DS's main issue is that he doesn't know how to have a conversation. He knows only how to talk.

I don't know that coaching him on topics he's not interested in is going to help, I'd have thought it would be pretty obvious to the others that he has no interest in it. If he talks to you about stuff he sees on tv, then maybe focus on this and finding out what the other kids in his class are watching. Or watch some football ummm things, like best goals or whatever if a match is too long.

Will he play with Lego if you build it for him? DS has motor issues and can't build the blocks together, but will play with it if it's built up. Do you have any Duplo? Did you know you can build Duplo into Lego?

I wasn't planning to coach him on new topics but rather to practice having conversations about things he already likes, and to broaden his interests a bit.

Son is nearly 8 and talks about gaming, football, rugby, days out, playing games etc.

Ah, ok. I misunderstood then. I do think some children need to be taught how to have a conversation, but maybe that's because of SN.

I just asked DD what she talks about with her best friend. She looked and said "we don't talk, we play!"

I was thinking about this - my heart goes out to you, it’s hard when we worry about our kids so I hope this has all helped.

I wanted to add that Ds has started watching Britain’s got talent / X factor / in a celeb type programmes too. I tend to record them then I can fast forward anything I don’t like (and he doesn’t stay up late!) but we took a few kids out of his class to the X factor tour and they have done in a celeb eating challenges too. Was just thinking it might be nice as you could watch those together?

DS1 (6.5) is just about starting to have conversations. But that’s with adults. I’ve just asked him what he talks to his friends at school about and got ‘we don’t talk, we play’. Which means charging around like lunatics (often split into baddies and goodies although we’ve tried to shut that down a bit as there was sometimes a whiff of hanging up). They also play football and cricket in the playground. He’ll talk the hind leg off a donkey about cricket.