Parents of 7 - 9 year old boys - a question please....

[hecate]

What is your son 'into'? TV programmes, toys and games, computer sites and films, even fashion.

I need to know what are the 'in' things for my boys' peer groups, so that I can help them to fit in and to have the same stuff. With their sn they need me to do this for them. What are your sons' interests? What are the hot topics in the playground?

TIA.

DS is 7 :

Films -Star Wars, Cars, Night at the Museum
PC - Lego Star Wars
Toys - Lego
TV- Dreadful SKY Cartoon channels!/Primeval/ Dr Who
Books - Beast Quest / Astrosaur, in fact any reading books
Other - Dinosaurs, space
Fashion - whatever!

Ds1 is 7 and likes:

Star Wars
Transformers
Dr Who
Primeval
Ben 10

His favourite books are the Captain Underpants ones.

football, cricket, any sport.

That and numbers (so money, adding up, looking for numbers, anything of that ilk).

Football cards too - he collects them and plays A LOT with his friends with those.

nintendo - Fifa 07, animal crossing (he plays that with his sister). On the computer, Club Penguin and the tamagotchi website (where he connects with his tamagotchi though he's losing interest in that).

In terms of TV, football, football and more football. Soccer Saturday, Match of the Day on a Sunday morning, first bits of evening matches.

(he sounds v boyish but he isn't really - due to having an older sister, he'd probably still happily dress up as a princess if she asked him too).

DS 8 likes

Star wars
Dr Who
All those c**p cartoon channels on Sky
Trading cards (pokemon etc)
Simpsons

Current obsession is bleedin' Runescape. Which now has to be rationed as it is too addictive

Hecate - I've been thinking about this today. Not sure what sort of SN your boys?

But if AS then I would very strongly recommend the Pokemon and gaming cards as a place to start. Hope that's not out of turn or inappropriate.

yup. Autism it is. Not out of turn at all! I need the advice. Thanks.

Star wars
Match Attack football cards
The Simpsons
Dr who
Ben 10
His DS
THe computer wheere he playes a range of stratagy games including Runescape

ds will be 8 the end of this month!

Just come across this thread searching about Club Penguin, ds (8) was introduced by a friend yesterday and is hooked!

Galactic Football on Jetix.

Dr Who/Star Wars/Power Rangers/Transformers

Not to mention GoGo bl**dy Crazy Bones....

Ahhh lego - DS not remotely interested in building anything at all, he makes up elaborate stories (many copied from Youtube) with his Harry Potter/Indiana Jones/darth vader etc etc lego people (thanks for reminding me!)

DS is 8

He likes all things Nintendo - preferring the Wii to the DS.

Match Attax cards

Cars (and anything related to cars like Top Gear)

Eating

Dr Who

Playing tennis

Swimming

Harry Potter

In roughly that order

warhammer (HUGE craze)
trading cards
footie
swimming
card games
uno
age of empires (pc game)
club penguin (website)
reading
gogocrazybones
simpsons
futurama
cinema
cooking

v envious of people who have DSs that like reading ... have resorted to bribery this summer

DS is 8 (& DS2 is 6)

Books:
Jack Stalwart
Captain Underpants
Horrible knowledge/ histories
Louis Sacher - Wayside School
Harry Potter
ANything really

TV:
Brainiac
Cartoons
Simpsons
Raven

Films:
The WaterHorse
KungFu Panda
Journey to the Center of the Earth

Star Wars generally everything

LEGO, LEGO, LEGO (especially Technics)

Wii - Star Wars, Big Brain, Excite Truck

Ninetendo DS

Rugby, Swimming, Tennis

Toys:
20Q
Yu-Gi-Oh
GoGo Crazy Bones
Paper Planes/ Origami

Science type experiment kit things

both my dss love reading.... but have to say ds2 reads a lot of c* if left to own devices.... darren shan (yuk).

DS is Sn as well so he just likes what my brother (a year younger) likes.

the list would be

Ben 10
nintendo DS - any game that has a car in it.
Star wars
transformers
He is just getting into the whole football thing. he hasn't a clue about it he just knows that boys talk about it, and like playing it.
he is almost 8 now so coming out of th epower rangers phase.
Bionicles.
lego - but not justthe normal lego bricks but the sets that youhave to make into star wars or robots ....you know the stuff that is hugely over priced

but mostly he jusr loves his bike. he only learned to ride it about a month ago and its all i can do to stop him taking it to bed with him!

ds is another pokemon fan. He has a Star Wars Lego collection, but probably plays with Playmobil more (he has pirates, castles and Roman collections).

He is also very keen on sticks, which I don't see mentioned here!

DS is 9 in November and he likes:

Anything to do with sport, especially if it involves a ball. So give him a ball and he is happy. We are in Australia and at school all he plays is something called 2-Square. It is a ball game played in the playground (they have several 'courts' painted on the asphalt) - it is a kind of tennis/pingpong type game using a tennis ball or other bouncy ball and their hands as racquets .... looks really cool.
He loves cricket and soccer.

He loves his Nintendo DS and 'connects' with his best friend when they get together
Starwars and Lego Starwars (the films, the real lego and the playstation game)

Sciencey type experiment games

Board games like scrabble and monopoly are winners too.

Clothes wise - DS couldn't care less really, he will wear an orange t-shirt and red shorts without thinking. I buy him basic jeans/combat trousers and shorts with t-shirts and long sleeved t's for the winter. I like the longsleeved t-shirts that look like they have normal t-shirt over the top IYKWIM?

He has expressed a wish for some converse boots but I think they are bad for his feet so he hasn't got them yet.

I He really wants a Wii so it looks like that will happen this xmas.

Books: Zac Power, Horrid Henry, anything fantasy, Captain Underpants, Roald Dahl ... very mixed taste, will read anything. Currently reading DH's old TinTin collection

DS1 is 8 and into Dr Who, Star Wars (including the Lego), Narnia and his PS2 and computer games.

He also loves everything related to Horrible Histories but I am not sure that is the norm.

He has AS but his NT mates are into football more than him and Transformers etc.

Oh and I forgot he loves reading.

He is currently reading Famous Five books and was surprised to meet his friend in the library a few days ago and he was reading them too.