What does your 10+ year olds do all day?

[Mummypig2020]

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My ds10 and dd12 are addicted to their phones/Xbox.

We need to try and cut down their usage, but they actual don’t know how to do anything else!! It’s awful.

I’m determined to use this time wisely and try and get them off it more.

So if it’s horrible weather and they can’t get out to play, atm during lockdown what are they doing?

Dd is doing schoolwork but ds doesn’t have as much. It’s getting done when Dh is off work as he is the smart one to help.

It really depends if they have other stuff to do, if your bothered about mess.
My DD 13, will watch tv, read, draw, paint do baking.
But she has lots of paint, water colour, acrylic, oils plus canvases.
She’s allowed to paint in her room.
We always have baking supplies in.
I’m not bothered about mess.

I'm working full time from home, so limited opportunity for any supervised activites, so swapping it round with Bitesize, self learning coding, movies, scout badge challenges, den building, regulated hour a day reading books, and time on playstation. Their day is still weighted to screen time to some degree but trying at least mix it up.

It's tricky because phones / gaming is how the communicate with friends so I understand why they use them so much. We've barely had any bad weather, so dc spend a lot of time outside. Otherwise baking, coding / hacking, listening to music and playing table tennis on dining room table (they still spend significant periods of time on phones or gaming though)

My soon to be 12 DGS does schoolwork for 2 hrs in morning and is then on ps2 until wfh mum takes him our for long walk. More ps2 then after supper they sit and watch a film together. He was very sporty until all this (captain of local rugby team, cross country etc) so quite sad for him. Ps2 is the only way he connects with school friends and team mates. He's not into art or books but will help mum cook each day and cut the grass when needed.

Same ages here.

DS2's school said they could spend lockdown working on projects of their own choice as long as it included some research, writing, and drawing so he's been making his own abbreviated Tube Map with stations we've used and finding facts about each one. Next up he's going to make a dinosaur booklet. Usually reads for an hour - 90 minutes each day. Most days he spends an hour or so in the garden messing around with a ball (seeing how long he can keep it off the ground, trying to catch it on his shoulders etc) unless it's really wet. He's always enjoyed construction kits so we bought a few of them on Amazon. He is spending more time on the Switch than usual but I don't mind at the moment.

DD is mostly drawing or doing craft stuff, some diamond art kits and she's starting needle felting. Also learning to bake, she's enjoyed going through my recipe books and highlighting ones she'd like to try, or finding ideas online. She keeps saying she'll have a sort out of the cupboard in her room and see if there's any old toys or books we could donate (when charity shops are open that is!) but is yet to get started.

It is really bad to imply to your dd that schoolwork is something only dad can help with, get a grip please it was written for a 12 year old you can work it out between you.
Give the 10 year old more to do if necessary - record the daily BBC Bitesize programme and let him watch it on tv, or they have similar stuff online. We are only doing about three hours of work per day (spread out) and as long as this is done they can Xbox themselves silly. I need to work too!

Sorry that sounds harsh but reread your last sentence - what role model are you sitting for your dd

10 and 15 year old.
Breakfast
8am 3-5 mile walk with dogs and us
Snack
School work
Lunch
School work
Chill out watch movie, phone, gaming, you tube etc
Dinner
More tv screen time face time family/ friends, gaming with friends online
Bed

Oh tie dye has been very popular with DD too!

We have no screens in bedrooms at all. Phones /tablets are handed in at bedtime and no tvs in bedrooms

Mine are also 10 and 12, and I am being a lot more lax about their screen time than usual.
The ten year old is doing school work all morning. Then he is reading (Redwall, Beanos, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, mostly), drawing Pokemon (literally for hours), watching Dr Who and The Simpsons. He doesn't have a phone, he has a laptop but mostly uses it for school work, h does play on the Xbox but not a huge amount but he does spend ages watching his brother play on the Xbox as well. He also plays with his pets (guinea pigs) and does some skipping outside but that has gone right down. Occasionally he goes for walks with me or bike rides. He also listens to podcasts, he likes Cabin Pressure. I have to say this doesn't sound a lot but it does seem to fill his days! We have done a bit of baking.
The 12 year old does a full school day every day on his laptop and phone, and is on his phone a lot talking to friends and playing games with them, he also is on the Xbox a lot playing Fortnite with his friends. I wish he would do more other things but I also think it is his way of interacting with his friends. He is reading a bit, but not much, we play board games but not as much as I would like to, and he goes out for bike rides and walks but only if forced. He is also learning French on Duolingo.

Chat to their friends online a lot. Ds2 also plays fifa and fortnite. Dd likes making furry dinosaur costumes and designing stuff. They also do online lessons, but mainly it seems to be chatting to their friends and holing themselves away in their rooms.
I try and get them out for some fresh air here and there but dd wont as she seems to be terrified.

Gymnastics in the garden, school work, cooking, baking, talking to me, chatting with friends, playing with pets, watching films together. She's 14.

Along with the phones, TV and screentime, some of the more virtuous stuff my 10 yo does includes:
baking
helping make meals
handwriting a letter to grandparents
drawing, colouring etc to make a picture for grandparents
plasticine
teaching herself French for beginners with an app (screentime I guess)
teaching herself typing with a software program (screentime, but useful)
Listening to music
Board games like Exploding Kittens, Game of Life, Scrabble
Made up her own game of matching pairs, where she drew the pictures
Reading books and comics
Planting something (in a pot if no garden) then watering it
Walking the dog
Going on her scooter
Even with all that, there are so many hours in the day and inevitable boredom. Boredom is probably good for us though.