What does your 9/10 year old like doing?

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My soon to be 10 year old DS seems to have lost interest in everything he used to love, lego, playing star wars etc. All he seems to want to do is play his PS3 or watch you tube videos of video games. I realise he's just growing up but would love to interest him in something else for his 'downtime'. (His regular activities include swimming, cubs and guitar lessons).

Minecraft and annoying Minecraft Stompy what's his name you tube vids!!!

Minecraft, origami, watching TV, composing on the garage band app, working on his novel, winding up his older brother.

DD: watching TV, reading, colouring, Hama beads, rainbow loom.

Scouts, football, tennis, meeting his friends, going to castles (bit random I know) and bloody minecraft

Football
Minecraft
Football
Designing "inventions" his bedroom wall is covered in them
Football
Tennis
Football
Table tennis
Football
Competitions of any kind

Oh, and football. He plays x 5 per week.

When DS was 10,
football
swimming
football
tennis
football
cubs
football
TV (mainly Match of the Day)
football

He is now nearly 13 and it is still football all the way!

Oh Taffeta

Actually, I forgot the table tennis too!

Ha! Tilly, twins.

Oh and I forgot Miranda.

He adores Miranda. DH keeps logging into his ipad and finding it on youtube Miranda clips. He sneaks up on his little sister and shrieks "SPASM!" at the top of his voice.

But mostly, football.

Once I can stop him doing screen-based stuff, he loves his skateboard and a bit of scootering. Some basketball in the summer and he will play a hand or two of black jack. DH took him to the pub and taught him Backgammon last week too. Oh, picking his nose as well.