Home activities after school

[tintinout96]

Please share what your 10 and 12 year olds do after school and clubs. How much screens and how much other stuff and what IS that other stuff? Struggling! Thanks

My kid is only 8 but didn't want to read and run. It's a mix of Lego, drawing, kicking a ball around our garden and messing around with the neighbours kids. If he's saying he's bored he gets chores to do, which he's often fine with and is nice if it means we hang out together a bit.

What do yours do, and what did they used to like doing?

Mine are 11 & 14. They are mainly the park with their mates at this time of year.

DS(10) has football two evenings a week (one is a casual session at school, the other for his football team) and cubs one evening.

Recently he has also started going round to a friend's house, or they come to ours, after school one day a week.

Otherwise he walks himself home, gets a snack and typically plays FIFA or plays football in the garden. After dinner is screen free so he might play a bit with DD or chat with us. Then gets ready for bed, reads a bit with us (ideally, though there isn't always something he wants to read) then lights off around 9/9.30.

Thanks all did the replies. They do lots of clubs and outside school activities..it’s more the times they are at home…the ‘downtime’ when they’re not with friends or at clubs or school. It seems to be more and more screens during that downtime and I don’t know how to change it or if I should. How much is too much? No screens after dinner we used do so maybe I’ll go back to that.

Thanks all FOR the replies!