Hours Per Day with High Schooler

[Anonymous]

We have breakfast together, drive to school together; pick up from school and drive home together; have dinner together; on weekends we'll usually watch a movie together and play with the cat, chat a bit. But mostly they are doing homework, after school activities or hanging with friends (often on line these days). I make excuses to go into their rooms (usually laundry, lol) just to say hi.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread makes me so grateful that senior DS has never played a sport of any kind.

I get that the benefits of team sports and actually don't disagree at all. But I'm not gonna lie, it would suck to see my teen for all 20 minutes a day.

(his extracurricular that he leveraged right into ED1 is independently scheduled by him)

What do you and your teen do together for more than 20 min and how long?

Pretty much daily:
Eat dinner most nights of the week, go out to dinner occasionally, prepare/clean up (1 hr). I sit and read while DS plays his instrument in the same room. Or we read in the same room (1/2 hr). Walk the dogs together (10 mins).

One of the weekend days we hang together as a family (daylight only) Hike. Go on random day trips to Shenandoah, Richmond, Baltimore. Go to vintage furniture stores / music stores / a DC museum / a random traveling exhibit. Union market. Yard work! Occasionally a concert.

He goes out with friends on weekend nights and works a couple of nights a week.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm disconcerted by the homework estimates for high/upper school on so many threads. If there's that much homework, even students without a time-sucking extracurricular won't have that much family or free time for non-school-affiliated interests.

That's high school for ya. Enjoy them while they're young. Teens are outwardly focused people as they should be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This thread makes me so grateful that senior DS has never played a sport of any kind.

I get that the benefits of team sports and actually don't disagree at all. But I'm not gonna lie, it would suck to see my teen for all 20 minutes a day.

(his extracurricular that he leveraged right into ED1 is independently scheduled by him)

What do you and your teen do together for more than 20 min and how long?

Pretty much daily:
Eat dinner most nights of the week, go out to dinner occasionally, prepare/clean up (1 hr). I sit and read while DS plays his instrument in the same room. Or we read in the same room (1/2 hr). Walk the dogs together (10 mins).

One of the weekend days we hang together as a family (daylight only) Hike. Go on random day trips to Shenandoah, Richmond, Baltimore. Go to vintage furniture stores / music stores / a DC museum / a random traveling exhibit. Union market. Yard work! Occasionally a concert.

He goes out with friends on weekend nights and works a couple of nights a week.

Oh okay so yea my kid gets home from sports and we pretty much do the same 30 min-1hr interaction.

Weekends obviously lots more with travel sports.