I have two children aged 14 and 13. They both play for football teams and are doing well at school. Yet they are so anti-social. At their age, I was always out with my five good friends. I am an independent, self-sufficient person who likes filling my life with interests. Their father is the same, even though we are divorced.
Today I took them to a football event they saw that all the children were younger. They refused to join in, we came home, and they have gone back to being in their rooms. I worry about their lack of social connections. I always ask them to call their friends and go out with them. Along with encourgaing them to go down to the local park and kick the football around. Which they haven't.
If I am not there, either booking something or I'm with them. They do nothing, and it worries me, as it's not through a lack of encouragement for things they can be doing. My ex-husband is pretty useless if I try and discuss things with him, I feel powereless to know what to do. They don't tell me they are bored, yet I just want more from their lives than them sitting in their rooms alone.