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What does your 7 year old do?

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RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 13/11/2021 15:38

Or want to do?

My child mostly just wants to watch TV. She has limited screen time, but whinges around this time SO MUCH it's just tedious.

She goes to swimming lessons and gymnastics, both of which she loves. We also go swimming another time in the week, again she enjoys this. She also does a 'rock band' thing in school where she's the vocalist - she loves singing. She has a scooter and is good at using that on the local skatepark - can join in with all the half pipe stuff quite happily, but it's nearly always us who have to suggest going to the skatepark. At home she does hammer beads, a bit of lego and plays with Barbies. She likes playing board games but will only start them under sufferance. She's an only child.

BUT, if asked what she wants to do at the weekend, or in an evening it's only ever 'I want to watch TV'. She doesn't even have a particular thing she watches on TV, just any old shit. We've tried leaving her to see how long it takes for her to get bored, and the answer is never. She'd watch it from the moment she wakes up until she goes to bed, and would moan about having to press pause to eat or go to the loo.

Is this all kids? Is this something to do with being an only?

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SomePosters · 13/11/2021 15:58

We went through this

Because we home ed and didn’t have to fit round school wake ups etc I just let it run it’s course. It took 3 days of watching stuff pretty much morning til bed time before she was bored of it and asking me to play with her / take her out

I think she actually really needed the downtime as her life is pretty full and busy (sounds like same at your end)

As long as there is also other exciting and stimulating things to do then a stint of downtime is no bad thing, as an adult I like to have the odd day of doing sod all so I don’t begrudge my kid the same

RuleWithAWoodenFoot · 13/11/2021 16:05

I think she actually really needed the downtime as her life is pretty full and busy (sounds like same at your end)

Yes, there is definitely some of this. She goes to afterschool club until 5.30. When she gets home she has to do 'other things' until 6, at which time she can put the TV on. She gets an hour, then it's dinner. I figure this time is quite important to just do meh.

She often does other stuff while watching telly - sometimes that just seems to be cutting up tiny, tiny pieces of paper (scream), but also is drawing sometimes.

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HalfShrunkMoreToGo · 13/11/2021 16:06

DD likes to have downtime at the weekend and for her that means tv/YouTube being on while she potters about. We went swimming this morning, got back lunch time and since then she's watched the alladin movie and built a mailbox for her Santa letter out of random bits of recycling liberally hot glued together, covered in felt and decorated with stickers.

Tomorrow she'll ride her bike for a bit, do some cooking and probably some more crafts.

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