What does your tween’s day look like?

[Anonymous]

Mine are in 7th and 4th grades. Both start "school" at 9, so are dressed, have had breakfast, and walk the dog before then. Zoom classes that they can do basically independently until lunch at noon. In the afternoon, independent work, including instrument practice for one and meeting (virtually) with a tutor or therapist for the other, who has learning disabilities, until 3. Then reading and video games until dinner, followed by a family movie or reading until bedtime.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine gets up around 10, eats a doughnut, checks his phone endlessly, arranges a meetup at the basketball court at his friends house and I think he eats lunch there or they go cruising to find a place that’s open. Afternoon is either endless video games, cursing at each other or some unknown , asking what’s for dinner, and then a titanic battle vfor the keys to the car.
This is like a snow day ghost won’t end.

Basketball with friends is not social distancing and very irresponsible

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine gets up around 10, eats a doughnut, checks his phone endlessly, arranges a meetup at the basketball court at his friends house and I think he eats lunch there or they go cruising to find a place that’s open. Afternoon is either endless video games, cursing at each other or some unknown , asking what’s for dinner, and then a titanic battle vfor the keys to the car.
This is like a snow day ghost won’t end.

That's so scarily irresponsible. How old is he that you have no control over him?

Agree! Your parenting sucks if you are allowing this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine gets up around 10, eats a doughnut, checks his phone endlessly, arranges a meetup at the basketball court at his friends house and I think he eats lunch there or they go cruising to find a place that’s open. Afternoon is either endless video games, cursing at each other or some unknown , asking what’s for dinner, and then a titanic battle vfor the keys to the car.
This is like a snow day ghost won’t end.

Why does your tween want the keys to the car?

[Anonymous]

Who knows? Both parents are working full-time in our home.

They (6th&8th middle school) are completing all School assignments, reading. Completing daily chores.We do not allow more than 1 hour of Xbox per day. They practice sports/exercise daily.

Frankly, I was not a parent that ever checked parentvue or badgered. They have been straight A/advanced classes and older one scored in top 1% on private high school entrance exams. I’m lucky they have been self-motivated/no needs.

I keep a steady supply of books. I ask “did you check email (I forward teacher emails) and canvas today? Do you have any online meetings.

We play board games/watch shows/and they report on a newspaper article they read that day.

They talk to friends online. We do not see anyone outside the home in person.

I’m surprised at those allowing play dates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine gets up around 10, eats a doughnut, checks his phone endlessly, arranges a meetup at the basketball court at his friends house and I think he eats lunch there or they go cruising to find a place that’s open. Afternoon is either endless video games, cursing at each other or some unknown , asking what’s for dinner, and then a titanic battle vfor the keys to the car.
This is like a snow day ghost won’t end.

Basketball with friends is not social distancing and very irresponsible

+100

[Anonymous]

Up at 7:30; shower, on line for first class at 8 am. Exercises when PE would be. Lunch with me. After school practices instrument.

Rest of the time is yard work for fresh air, YouTube and Minecraft, on line with friends, and some family time.

Homework after dinner. 9:30 bed time (older teen is up until 11 though).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mine gets up around 10, eats a doughnut, checks his phone endlessly, arranges a meetup at the basketball court at his friends house and I think he eats lunch there or they go cruising to find a place that’s open. Afternoon is either endless video games, cursing at each other or some unknown , asking what’s for dinner, and then a titanic battle vfor the keys to the car.
This is like a snow day ghost won’t end.

Basketball with friends is not social distancing and very irresponsible

+100

Neither is "cruising to find a place that's open." Sheesh, we're all in this together. Let's all do what we have to do to keep the entire community safe so we can get past this SIP order.

[Anonymous]

Mine is actually pretty busy with school. She doesn’t have zoom classes , but her assignments from her teacher have to be submitted onto Google classroom by 3 or 4 pm (depending on the teacher) each day. She and her friends FaceTime while they work on the assignments together in the morning. She’ll eat lunch and go out on the trampoline for a little while. After that she has an hour long workout with her gymnastics team on zoom. If she has any free time she’s usually riding her bike or on the trampoline.

[Anonymous]

DS is 18 and DD is 17 for the past month during the pandemic

- Wake up @6:45am
- Breakfast @7am
- DS practices guitar from 7:30am-9:30am; DD practices piano from 7:30am-9:30am
- break from 9:30am-10am
- 10am-12:30am. Both DS and DD go working out with me in the gym at my workplace. The building is closed but I am the building engineer so we use the gym to workout since our regular Sports and Health club close a few weeks ago
- Lunch @1pm
- Reading from 2-4pm
- break for 30 minutes
- DS practices piano and vocal from 4:30-6:30pm; DD practices violin from 4:30-630pm
- Dinner @7pm
- Hanging with friends virtually from 8-9pm
- In bed @9:15pm

[Anonymous]

I don´t know. I am working. She either works on school stuff or is on you tube and eating snacks all day. I make sure she practices violin or goes out back and shoots for archery. We have family time in the evenings like we used to. She does not have many zooms but a lot of online work through virtual classroom starting this week and she is in all advanced classes and top 10 in her school so I feel no need to hover over her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD 14, freshman in high school

7-9am breakfast, scrolls thru phone
9-12am usually does work or watches netflix
12-1pm eats lunch sometime and doesn't do work
2-4pm usually has online ballet
4-6pm varies, sometimes catches up on work, mostly just relaxes
6-8pm family time, dinner, etc
10pm bedtime

she gets distracted and watches netflix a lot and takes frequent breaks while doing homework

This is my 12 year old's schedule to a T, except ballet is 4-6 instead of 2-4.

[Anonymous]

Mine are getting up around 8, lazing around for a half hour before brushing their teeth and sitting down to do school from 8:30-11:30 or noon. I let them eat breakfast while they work.

Then they make lunch and FaceTime friends. One listens to music while doing homework for the next day but the other does homework while FaceTiming. I have been alternating each day with either art or "gym" for all.

Then they do whatever from about 3 to 5. Then everyone cleans or folds laundry or walks the dog or reads or something until 5:30 or 5:45. If they sneak off to do nothing after getting done whatever I asked them to do, I pretend not to notice. Then we make dinner, eat, clean up, watch something, play a game and then they laze around until bed.

I have five kids at home so need to run a tight ship in order to avoid chaos. Some days there are special projects. Yesterday the girls learned how to check the oil on a car and use a tire pressure gauge. Today everyone learns to fold a fitted sheet. Tomorrow they learn how to bake salmon.