Day trip with mum to central London

[Thesunisshining888]

Do you spend at least one day doing a day trip with your teens during their half term holidays?
I feel it is our family tradition but now my 15year old child told me he doesn’t join me anymore (I was planning to take him to selfridges, Nike town, cool places for lunch etc…).
No idea if I should try to convince him not to give up one of the few opportunities to be together or whether I should listen to him (so he can spend the whole week in his room waking up late and playing FIFA On the PlayStation…..)

Rather then a day trip to London as 'tradition' can you talk to him and find out if there is anything else he would like to do? Maybe a day at shops isn't doing it for him.

I might try. When they were in primary school, of course it was the museums in South Ken or the London museum in Barbican. Or Greenwich.
seriously their ideal day now is All day fifa and if I don’t propose anything, they will do just that.

Have you considered anything else? There are so many places you could go, why restrict to London?

He’s 15, not 5. Let him choose what he wants to do. At that age if DD said she fancied a trip out with me then that’s great, we’d go and do it but the vast majority of the time she wanted to do her own thing with her friends. It’s normal.