What do your secondary school age kids do on weekends?

[Ripepear]

Looking for ideas. No hobbies really at the moment.

My yr7 does Scouts, horse riding & a couple of in school/after school clubs. Home work, gaming. Sunday School.

My yr11 works, Scouts, music lessons. Gaming, revision. Church youth group.

My year 7 plays football (grassroots). He also watches our local team on a Saturday.

He plays out down the park, plays his PlayStation. and completes his homework.

He’s a happy boy 😁. Long may that continue.

Lots of scouts stuff - canoeing, camping, hiking, volunteering.

He either hangs about with his mates or festers in bed all day (14).

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

My dd seems to have constant exams ( normal Comp) she spends nearly all her time revising which l hate.

I amazed at the ones on here who have all this free time! Maths and physics revision today for 2 exams on Monday. English and Spanish for Tuesday. Then more exams in 2 weeks.

Mine also has a lot of exams (also normal comp) but gets round this by simply not bothering to revise...🙄

Daughter ballet and seeing friends. Watching football.

DS cricket in the summer, drumming and watching football.

I can sometimes drag them out for a walk and they still enjoy days out around the above. Usually theme parks.

@EvelynBeatrice

I thought most teens had at least a full day of homework and/or revision each weekend. That's what it was like for me as a kid and same for mine. Aside from sporting activities in addition this is commonplace for teens - certainly above 14s - that I know.

Nope. I've known a LOT of teens, and not known any teens that do this (maybe except in the run up to GCSEs).

Dd y7
Cadets Friday night
Saturday mainly hangs out with us, left over homework from the week
Sunday riding lesson, Minecraft with friends, see family for Sunday dinner

Volunteering: riding for the disabled, walking dogs, creche at church. Skate school/just skateboarding. Football (not elitist, he's pretty rubbish, they're just a nice bunch who probably need the numbers as kids get older and busier).

I'd like them to get a job but it seems less of a thing compared with when I was a teenager.

All their friends have language school on one of the days.

D of E, riding, swimming, X box, X Box, X Box, seeing their mates, family trips (walks, lunch, cinema, days out), cooking, eating family meals, films at home, music, piano practice, crafting. Pretty much same as us (minus x box)