8th grade boys

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Anonymous wrote:On Friday nights all through middle school and the beginning of HS, my kids would have a crew of friends over. They would come home from school and bake brownies. I’d stop for pizzas on my way home from work. They played pool and watched movies mostly.

My youngest goes to gymnastics on Friday nights.

Boys???

Sounds like girls.

What?! Do you seriously not have experience with tween boys, or teen boys? Or freaking adult men? Brownies and pizza are.pretty much food groups to themselves. Do you mean the fact that they make the brownies themselves? My boys dont expect women to bake for them all the time.

No group of boys gets together and bakes.

DP, but really? My DS LOVES to bake. I hate it, so often he ends up baking with my DH and his other cousin.
Plus, my BIL has a pizza oven, and they all love it. Not sure what that would be so uncommon.

Irrelevant. That's not a group of 13 year old boys coming over to bake. Individually ok but boys hanging around a kitchen baking and chatting?? Nope.

[Anonymous]

my 13 year old son plays video games or does other things on his iPad but no social media, no gaming with other kids. no fortnite. reads, we join other families for dinner sometimes, etc but he does not seem to hang out with groups of friends on weekend evening at this point...

[Anonymous]

I have a 7th grader who much prefer friends one on one. My son plays a ton of sports and gets his social fill via that route. Hes a homebody and still really likes his family. He might hang with one friend 2-3 weekends a month, but mainly, when he has downtime (there isnt much of it) he asks us to go to the movies, likes to sit with us on the couch and watch TV, play video games. And hang with his brother. He still likes snuggling on the couch and still likes us to read to him. I'm soaking up every single drop.

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Anonymous wrote:On Friday nights all through middle school and the beginning of HS, my kids would have a crew of friends over. They would come home from school and bake brownies. I’d stop for pizzas on my way home from work. They played pool and watched movies mostly.

My youngest goes to gymnastics on Friday nights.

Boys???

Sounds like girls.

What?! Do you seriously not have experience with tween boys, or teen boys? Or freaking adult men? Brownies and pizza are.pretty much food groups to themselves. Do you mean the fact that they make the brownies themselves? My boys dont expect women to bake for them all the time.

Teen boys are not hanging out baking with each other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a 7th grader who much prefer friends one on one. My son plays a ton of sports and gets his social fill via that route. Hes a homebody and still really likes his family. He might hang with one friend 2-3 weekends a month, but mainly, when he has downtime (there isnt much of it) he asks us to go to the movies, likes to sit with us on the couch and watch TV, play video games. And hang with his brother. He still likes snuggling on the couch and still likes us to read to him. I'm soaking up every single drop.

So glad to hear this! I have a 6th grade boy who's like this. Loves sports and loves being with the other kids for that, but still loves hanging out with us, and especially with his dad. Not sure when this will come to an end, but also soaking up every minute!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On Friday nights all through middle school and the beginning of HS, my kids would have a crew of friends over. They would come home from school and bake brownies. I’d stop for pizzas on my way home from work. They played pool and watched movies mostly.

My youngest goes to gymnastics on Friday nights.

Boys???

Sounds like girls.

What?! Do you seriously not have experience with tween boys, or teen boys? Or freaking adult men? Brownies and pizza are.pretty much food groups to themselves. Do you mean the fact that they make the brownies themselves? My boys dont expect women to bake for them all the time.

Teen boys are not hanging out baking with each other.

I have seen my nephews do this. It isn't like they invite friends over to bake. They invite friends over to play video games, hang out, etc. Then they want cookies or brownies, so they get off their butts and make them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I have a 7th grader who much prefer friends one on one. My son plays a ton of sports and gets his social fill via that route. Hes a homebody and still really likes his family. He might hang with one friend 2-3 weekends a month, but mainly, when he has downtime (there isnt much of it) he asks us to go to the movies, likes to sit with us on the couch and watch TV, play video games. And hang with his brother. He still likes snuggling on the couch and still likes us to read to him. I'm soaking up every single drop.

So glad to hear this! I have a 6th grade boy who's like this. Loves sports and loves being with the other kids for that, but still loves hanging out with us, and especially with his dad. Not sure when this will come to an end, but also soaking up every minute!

Yup! He is still my little love bug and I love every second of it. I especially like that we have created a home environment where he wants to do this. I came from a terribly dysfunctional home and have exactly zero memories of ever wanting to be around my parents. My friends and friends families were where I was more relaxed and comfortable.

[Anonymous]

We usually go out to dinner or to a friend's. Plays on his computer, watch a movie, but no social media. Not into it... yet.

[Anonymous]

Practice, classes, video games or movies, working on his hobbies (artsy stuff), playing/fighting with siblings, hanging out with neighborhood friends, going somewhere as a family, playing board/card games as a family, visiting family, etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On Friday nights all through middle school and the beginning of HS, my kids would have a crew of friends over. They would come home from school and bake brownies. I’d stop for pizzas on my way home from work. They played pool and watched movies mostly.

My youngest goes to gymnastics on Friday nights.

Boys???

Sounds like girls.

What?! Do you seriously not have experience with tween boys, or teen boys? Or freaking adult men? Brownies and pizza are.pretty much food groups to themselves. Do you mean the fact that they make the brownies themselves? My boys dont expect women to bake for them all the time.

Teen boys are not hanging out baking with each other.

I have seen my nephews do this. It isn't like they invite friends over to bake. They invite friends over to play video games, hang out, etc. Then they want cookies or brownies, so they get off their butts and make them.

Baking is not part of teen boy socializing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On Friday nights all through middle school and the beginning of HS, my kids would have a crew of friends over. They would come home from school and bake brownies. I’d stop for pizzas on my way home from work. They played pool and watched movies mostly.

My youngest goes to gymnastics on Friday nights.

Boys???

Sounds like girls.

What?! Do you seriously not have experience with tween boys, or teen boys? Or freaking adult men? Brownies and pizza are.pretty much food groups to themselves. Do you mean the fact that they make the brownies themselves? My boys dont expect women to bake for them all the time.

Teen boys are not hanging out baking with each other.

I have seen my nephews do this. It isn't like they invite friends over to bake. They invite friends over to play video games, hang out, etc. Then they want cookies or brownies, so they get off their butts and make them.

Baking is not part of teen boy socializing.

Why do you keep making these blanket statements, when other people are telling you what actual teen boys they know are doing? The OP wasn't asking what every single other kid does. Posters are saying what their individual kid does, and you keep stating this generalization over and over. This is like someone asking where does your kid go to college. If a couple of people answer Harvard, would you keep saying "kids don't go to Harvard" just because not everybody goes to Harvard?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On Friday nights all through middle school and the beginning of HS, my kids would have a crew of friends over. They would come home from school and bake brownies. I’d stop for pizzas on my way home from work. They played pool and watched movies mostly.

My youngest goes to gymnastics on Friday nights.

Boys???

Sounds like girls.

What?! Do you seriously not have experience with tween boys, or teen boys? Or freaking adult men? Brownies and pizza are.pretty much food groups to themselves. Do you mean the fact that they make the brownies themselves? My boys dont expect women to bake for them all the time.

Teen boys are not hanging out baking with each other.

I have seen my nephews do this. It isn't like they invite friends over to bake. They invite friends over to play video games, hang out, etc. Then they want cookies or brownies, so they get off their butts and make them.

Baking is not part of teen boy socializing.

Why do you keep making these blanket statements, when other people are telling you what actual teen boys they know are doing? The OP wasn't asking what every single other kid does. Posters are saying what their individual kid does, and you keep stating this generalization over and over. This is like someone asking where does your kid go to college. If a couple of people answer Harvard, would you keep saying "kids don't go to Harvard" just because not everybody goes to Harvard?

I believe more than one person is saying this. I made one comment but not the others.

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my 13 year old son likes to bake. and he sometimes has friends over who bake with him. and they make ice cream sometimes.

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Anonymous wrote:He couldn't wait to get home from sports practice to play some video game he preordered months ago. It came out today. He also tried to fake sick this morning. Um, no way.

Call of Duty Black Ops 4... mine did too.

That's it! I came downstairs last night and he was back to playing Fortnite again. He said there was a bug with the new game so he couldn't play it.

YES!
Talk about a major letdown after all of that anticipation!
When will these developers ever learn?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:my 13 year old son plays video games or does other things on his iPad but no social media, no gaming with other kids. no fortnite. reads, we join other families for dinner sometimes, etc but he does not seem to hang out with groups of friends on weekend evening at this point...

This is my 7th grade son - bookish and with similar friends. He plays on the iPad and the wii but no fortnight, no social media. He gets together with friends sometimes on the weekend and they will play video games or cards or chat or watch a movie. Mostly on weekend evenings we will do family stuff which might sometimes include getting together with another family with similar age kids, going out to dinner, watching a movie at home.