Would really welcome any input on this one. Have a 9 year old very verbose G&T boy. A second family with a new partner and our two much younger children who are significantly more chilled out. I'm realising I'm dreading the weekends DS1 is at home. He is 'occupied' for half of one of the days because of a sports club, but otherwise finds it difficult not to be 'entertained' all the time. He has a lot of one to one time at his dads alternate weekends so maybe this emphasises it. To be frank my DP finds him difficult, I find it tricky, and when he is in the whole family he wants to dominate the whole proceedings in quite an alpha male way. We have one family friend who has the same gap of kids so this works OK as they are all amused. Otherwise if we just 'hang out' at home we can't play board games easily without little ones interfering. We can amuse the little ones easily at parks/zoos etc but DS1 is generally bored and verbal about being so. Any ideas? How do any of you with big age gaps between kids manage at the weekends. DP seems reluctant to 'divide up' and amuse them separately. I seem to be piggy in the middle most of the time and struggling. We don't have lots of family locally and I'm reluctant to do big day trips to places with two littles ones and all the organisation and timings that that entails to make things go smoothly.