What are teenagers supposed to do for fun on the weekend

[mother2mother]

So was wondering what are teenagers supposed to do for fun on the weekend outside just sitting in the park. My Daugher is at the awkward stage where she's too old for discos (which 10 year olds somehow get into) but too young for real clubs. So what do teens do. It feels like all she can really do is go to the cinema but that is quite hard due to our local cinema putting on the most awkward times ever.

Same here. Dd (16) is away at college & is knackered in the evenings in the week. At weekends she has a Saturday job in the morning butvon Saturday afternoon/Sunday she might go into town, meet friends, go to the library/arts centre cafe or go for a walk by the river/Park. But unless she’s going to the theatre or a film she is never out after 6/7pm

Similarly Ds has various organised activities weekday & Sunday evenings but otherwise he’s always home by 6pm. At weekends/school holidays he may go to the cinema, lunch in Sainsburys cafe with friends, Laser Quest or go swimming at the local leisure centre. Occasionally he & a few friends will go round to his grandparents house in the evening because he has a large garden & a pool table.

Mine would just have had friends over for a few hours on Sat with sleepovers in the holidays. Met with friends in town Sat afternoon or just hang out at home with us watching movies or reading.
Dd went to a youthgroup one fri a month and she loved that. 2dss were not bothered with that. They all played sport too with matches most weekends so busy.

Both mine Work and play sport and seems to be plenty of parties.

My DS is 15 and we live in a smallish town.

He doesn't go out much, he just hangs out with friends. Sometimes he will go into the nearest city and occasionally stay there overnight with a friend of a friend.

He also has some organised activities on week nights and weekends (sport, music).

Kids here can't afford to do much and I suspect for a lot of them social activities revolve mainly around sports clubs.

Playing sport, doing homework, Xbox, sleepovers, watching rugby

Mine slobbed about eating everything yesterday then went to McDonald's at tea time with a group of friends and back to another's for a sleep over. She was supposed to go to a cafe today for hot chocolate and cake with another friend. She changed her mind and came to the crem, and to see her grandma in hospital instead with me. Until recently all Sunday was taken up with her sport but shed moved from juniors to ladies now so we've got Sundays back. She's just turned 16.

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I used to have a friend over for dinner . We would eat in the lounge not with parents and mine would let us have one bottle of alco-pop Then just talk or sit in my room with tv on.

Then other weeks I would go to a friends for the evening. We might get the bus to go to the supermarket, to buy snacks etc and watch tv together at theirs. Generally parents would then pick us up in the car at 11 ish.

Occasional party but not often. Cinema would usually be daytime rather than evening.

Sometimes we would go to blockbusters and rent a movie to watch !--

My 13 yo doesn't go out in the evenings, other than with us, except to birthday parties and Guides. My 17 yo goes to cinema, bowling or ice skating occasionally. Otherwise she likes sleepovers. Mostly talks to internet friends on social media though. (Met through shared interests in various YouTubers)

Like others, mine have all had hobbies they are very involved with which
a) takes up a lot of time at the weekends - for example see the post about Air cadets on P1 and
b) means they know lots of people, so there is then often something going on they get invited to - party, fundraiser, cinema, meeting for a hot chocolate, or a BBQ or whatever

If you are spending 6 hours out of the house in the morning or daytime at your sporting fixture, or your activity day, then evenings don't need to be high adreneline as you are knackered, and, at some point have to fit in those mundane things like homework and sorting your room out etc.

Read a book?

Have a hobby?

Learn a skill?

Physically visit friends houses?

DD 15
During the week she has sport / societies after school, so normally gets home at about 5.30/6.
Has bath, changes, we eat at about 6.30/7.
1.5/ 2 hours of homework most nights, then heads to bed (she gets up at 6.45am).

Weekends she spends one day working at the local riding stable in exchange for a lesson. The other day she normally has a hockey or cricket match and then hangs out at the clubhouse with team friends (sofas, bar, big telly).
Otherwise Fri and Sat eves are cinema, friends’ houses, gym or the occasional party. By 15, DS was going to parties most Saturdays, but that doesn’t seem to be the case with DD’s cohort.

DD and her friends grab a train to the next town along and go to a restaurant for dinner or shopping.

@mother2mother My daughter is absolutely in love with EDM, and for the 6th year absolutely obsessed with Martin Garrix...no clue what to do about it!

ds(14) goes out on his bike to friends, they all meet up and go and play football (in the dark) at local astroturfs, go to McDs the back to play football.

Or they will go to each others houses, cinema, swimming (usually fun nights on at weekends), trampolining, party, movie night at someones house, gym, badminton etc etc. They never just hang about. There is a world of things they can do before they need to resort to mind numbing hanging about parks at night and potentially getting into trouble she needs to get some interests.