Young children disengaging with grandparents on Zoom

[Tobebythesea]

We’ve got a young school age child who is (non-Covid times) close to their grandparents. They haven’t seen them now for 5 months due to changes in tiers and 2 lockdowns.

Since Christmas the disengagement via Zoom has got increasingly worse (getting up in the middle of the conversation to watch tv, say they want to go frequently) and today fir the first time our child refused to talk to them or come to the camera. It’s sad, rude and embarrassing (to us) but we just don’t know what to do.

Is anyone else having this? Any advice? Do we wait it out until we can actually meet up outside in a few weeks?

@RMRM

Zoom calls are quite boring for children and if they've been doing them for school since Christmas, I can't blame them for being totally fed up. It's just not the same as in real life.

Boring for adults as well.

Have you tried telephone calls instead? DC doesn't have the patience for a video call but will quite happily chat on the phone.

I loathe Zoom calls, they bore me to tears.