Evening activities for kids.

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Tumtitumtum · 08/12/2021 23:38

AIBU to ask for help, have 3 girls. Littlest is happy to play dolls after school or Netflix, 9yo will entertain herself with crafts or iPad. 12 year old is BORED. She’s stuck to a screen but unlike a lot of kids hates it. It’s easier in summer to go into the garden or whatever but she’s not struggling and as I’ve fallen into a pattern of home/work/clean/cook/bed and dealing with challenging 9yo bedtime it’s slipped through my radar!

So now I guess I need to also muster the energy to provide some non screen time entertainment, board games aren’t an option as they always end up in a fight!

They don’t get in until 6pm usually.

Help!

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Notimeforaname · 09/12/2021 00:32

A big arts and crafts box ?

MrsPleasant · 09/12/2021 00:34

Teach her to cook and she can sort out dinner.

Notimeforaname · 09/12/2021 00:35

Is there an instrument she'd like to try ?

Are there any local clubs/sports on that she could attend the odd evening?
I know its difficult with covid and now xmas holidays but perhaps you could find and activity for her outside the home in the new year.

JessieOh · 09/12/2021 00:42

Kitchen dancing! Radio on loud on Absolute 80s radio or equivalent for your age, each song you could say things like: name of artist and song name, approx Yr it was in the charts, a memory of your life at that age if you have one. The dance away as you do kitchen jobs together...
Emptying the dishwasher, pass the items with exaggerated moves, hanging the laundry out, sing the high notes with funny pained face as you unfurl the leg of the tights that has become all knotted up etc.

Gets jobs done, makes housework fun, makes happy memories for the kids and will remind you of your happy memories. It also helps your children to see you as an individual rather than simply mum-placed on the planet to serve them.

Can you tell we love kitchen dancing?

ChangeChingyChange · 09/12/2021 20:51

Learn a language? You could make time to do it together

Namechangeforthis88 · 09/12/2021 20:57

This is what we call arty crafty time. Drawing, colouring, extreme dot to dot, origami, puzzle books.

shouldistop · 09/12/2021 20:58

At that age my friends and I would hang about each other's houses after school or we went swimming once a week (again with friends)

Quickdraw · 05/03/2022 07:52

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