What clubs/activities do your teens do that aren't sport or music related?

[bunjies]

Looking for some inspiration really.

14 year old ds currently does trampolining & table tennis once a week. He's just informed me that he wants to give up trampolining as he doesn't get more than 10 mins tuition in a 1.5 hr session. Fair enough it costs £6 a time so am happy for him to do something else instead. But what? He doesn't want to do drama & he's not into musical instruments. He used to be into footie but not so into playing it any more. He loves making videos for YouTube but there doesn't seem to be anything around for his age group. I really don't want him spending the time he would be at trampolining in front of a screen but we can't think of anything he might be interested in. Any ideas?

It'll be different for all, but in our family it's a case of balance. Both of mine spend a lot of spare time on devices (and now a days use phones and laptops for school work). I don't really mind if this is gaming (I game too), or learning coding, foreign languages etc.

I'm a Technical Consultant for a living BTW, so I spend a lot of time on devices (in down time as well as work), but want the kids to be in situations requiring social skills. FWIW, I only partially got this right when I was a kid; I socialised casually a lot (out on bikes etc as a default activity, and lived in a country village so had to cycle to friends), but I wish I'd done more team sports, friends who did Rugby etc almost without exception all have a bigger / better friend circle now.

Zombie Thread.

"Teen" will be 25 by now!