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To ask if your teen is spending the summer on their own

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KathfromSalesandMarketing · 08/08/2018 08:49

DD(14) sleeps til 11am
Gets up and makes breakfast. Then she's on screen all day. Netflix or YouTube. She does team sport three evenings a week and one day at the weekend.

She's perfectly content and sunny natured. She'd love to be out with friends but whenever she tries to arrange stuff with them they are busy or call off at the last moment. They don't invite her.

She seems perfectly happy (I work mainly from home) but wondered if I should tell her to get off the screen ... and do what?

What are your teens up to and how do they manage time on their own?

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Floottoot · 08/08/2018 09:11

Our DD is the same age. We went away for a week early in the holidays and are going away again in a couple of weeks. We've been out and about as a family some days ( DH is self employed, and we have DS, 12) and I've tried to get DD to do some maths revision in prep for year 10, but itherwise, she's drifted from her phone to the TV to the PS4 to lying on her bed, in rotation.
She hasn't seen friends, partly because she goes to a school where the intake is scattered over a very large area, but also because her various friends are away on holiday at different times.
I do get frustrated with her lack of motivation to do anything but I'm hoping it's typical of most 14 year old girls. I'm keeping in mind the fact that the next 2 years are going to be a slog, school wise, so cutting her some slack this summer may not be such a bad idea.

KathfromSalesandMarketing · 08/08/2018 11:45

Thanks, Floot. We've not been away because of DH's work commitments but I might try and book something for a few days. We live in a village and I do see teens hanging around in groups/pairs but DD can't find anyone to hang out with.

I suppose I should just be relieved that she's happy doing her own thing.

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AnnDerry · 08/08/2018 11:57

So long as she's happy, I think it sounds fairly typical. DD's friends either live in villages with no public transport, or are away. DD has started going to the gym daily which gives her some structure, otherwise she's watching netflix/ doing a bit of homework/ learning lines for her next play / listening to music. She does chat to her friends on Skype but apart from her bff who is a 15 minute walk away, is not rushing to try to see them when they are around.

ArmySal · 08/08/2018 12:01

Mine is exactly the same.

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