How often do you take the kids out for fun?

[Dandelionplease]

How often do you take the kids out for fun?

To the cinema etc probably once every 3 weeks. We go to the park once a week. But also coffee shops etc (more for my treat then there's sometimes)

Rarely.
We seem to have different ideas about what constitutes fun.
He doesn't want to walk, (anywhere) I don't drive.
He likes being indoors; I like being out.

All the time, but fun can constitute lots of different things from park walk, feeding ducks, playground etc to animal park, cinema etc

When they were little, every day.
My ds just needed exercising

I think though, that it is about mindset - about 'looking for the fun in the situation' - so it might be that you know you need to walk to the shop because you've run out of something, but pulling the wellies on and splashing through the puddles can still be fun for a child.

I take dd2 out every weekend. We can't go out during the week because of work/school but weekends we go out once or twice. We go swimming, farm park (we have a pass), cinema (during school holidays where we can use meerkat movies), soft play, shopping, etc. It's quite easy to find something dd2 wants to do, less easy to find something we BOTH want to do. And we're lucky to have enough money that we can go out and do things without worrying about the cost.

Quite a lot I think. Most weekends we do something. I think it's almost become habit!

We do something pretty much every weekend & always have. Dd is getting older now & we are being dumped in favour of her mates!

We live near the coast, so often go to the beach at the weekends.

In the winter soft play or cinema maybe once or twice a month.

Places like the aquarium or the zoo maybe a few times a year, esp if we have family or relatives visiting.

Park at least twice a week.

Our boys play a lot of sport so that takes up a large chunk of our weekends

We go out for dinner once or twice a week but we are big foodies.

It's harder as they get older. Little ones find fun in all sorts of everyday things. Older DC want 'proper' fun - cinema trips and shopping for new clothes and theme parks etc. It gets pricey to do that all the time

What kind of age range of dc are you talking about, OP ?

Around 7

Bump for morning crowd.

What do you mean ‘for fun’? Mine are younger (5, 4 and a baby) but I take the ones not at school out every day and the school aged child both weekend days. They’re rarely paid activities though; they find a trip to the park, a bike ride etc fun at this age. 5 year old also does 3 after school activities that she finds fun.
We probably do paid ‘fun’ activities once a week, more in the school holidays.

Most weekends!

It costs a fortune.

Sometimes they will tolerate a cheap trip to the park/ beach but often it’s soft play/ shopping/ cinema.

Thankyou. It’s just that sometimes I struggle to get mine out!

Not really in the week but weekends most of the time really!
This weekend we have
Fri night- in the garden with paddling pool
Sat-one at a party
School fair
Walk down our lane to country pub with friends
Today dh is taking them swimming

Struggle to get them out because they don’t want to go, or because you find it difficult?

We are generally very busy during the week with school, work and clubs so mine definitely need some time just mooching at home at the weekends. Generally try to get them out once at the weekend but let them rest the other day.

My 2 younger ones have busy weeks and weekends as they do 3 or 4 sports each and we both work full time so it really depends week to week but we would normally get out for a walk on the coast and an ice cream or to cinema or birthday party or shopping. I tend to take time off when they are off school and we normally do a bit more then.

It’s too easy to not do anything and let school, work and routine shadow every day but we live near the sea so if it’s hot, after school we go home, grab an ice lolly and nip to the beach.
Have a walk and play for an hour before tea.
Costs nothing, is great fun and we are lucky to live where we do as we are within a 10 minute drive to a beach.

We will do this 2 or three times a week.

Every day at the weekend. But stuff like the park / beach. Not costing money stuff

We try to take DS, 9, out every weekend for the day if DH isn't working. Mainly travelling to do short hikes (about 2 hours long), then we would stop for something to eat. We only do the cinema when theres something he really wants to see, and beach, farms etc maybe once a month. We'd have regular walks along the seafront or park twice a week in the evenings.

I have 2 teenagers who rarely want to come with us, they mainly go out with friends.

I think children need to go 'out' daily if possible. Even if that's just a walk to local park/beach/woods.

At least once a week. Every weekend we usually have something planned. Even now they're in their teens we yank them away from friends and screens for an evening or half a day to come to a show or gallery or out for a hike or to dinner. They love it. We've always done it, since they were toddlers.

Every day when not in school - park, playground or woods. We don't do cinema, childrens activities etc because they are not something he could cope with and/or enjoy.