I feel like I’m at my wit’s end with my seven year old. He’s a bright boy but never been a player (never got deep into dinosaur play, train tracks, castle and knights, play kitchen etc) just not that kind of kid with the make believe and imaginary world. He finds it really hard to settle down to something especially in the later afternoon. We have quite active mornings on the weekend doing stuff and from 4-6 we’re always at home. From 2-4 ish both children have tablet time/watch stuff on their tablets. It’s after that we’re having problems. My son wanders around aimlessly and ends up bothering /winding up his younger sibling and it ends in screaming and fighting. Everything I direct him to he rejects in favour of wandering around and annoying everybody (for example this afternoon he decided to throw loads of magnatiles at the kitchen window endlessly to ‘see if they would stick to glass’ - he knows they don’t - and then of course gets told off). We have snap circuits, Lego, magnatiles, marble run all the usual stuff.
I was wondering about a longer term project that we could work on each weekend together but also he needs to be able to do himself as we can’t go on like this in a cycle of wandering around and winding up his sibling scream crying and repeat.