Besides screens, what indoor solo activities does your 12 year old choose?

[Anonymous]

If your kid around this age is home without a friend and any siblings are otherwise occupied, what would he or she choose to do?

[Anonymous]

Lots of book reading, drawing and painting, knitting

[Anonymous]

Reading. It even sometimes supersedes screentime!

[Anonymous]

Mine read, drew, experimented with her hair, and built gadgets.

[Anonymous]

Reading, drawing, baking, playing with the dog, dancing, singing showtunes.

[Anonymous]

Read, play instrument, cook/bake, shoot baskets, play with the dog, etc.

[Anonymous]

Draws, tries calligraphy, reads, decorates, reorganizes bedroom and closet, cleans her sister’s room for money, braids hair, makes paper dolls, makes furniture and clothes for stuffed animals, tries to curl hair, etc

[Anonymous]

Loves to play the flute (she practices for hours every day), listens to music and draws.

[Anonymous]

Reading, art projects (drawing, painting, paper crafts, etc.), cleaning/rearranging her room, playing with the cat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Read, play instrument, cook/bake, shoot baskets, play with the dog, etc.

Do you have a way to shoot baskets indoor?

I'm OP, and my 12 year old's go to activities are all outside. He'll happily ride his bike for hours, play fetch with the dog, or shoot baskets, but as the weather gets colder, and it's dark early, he's finding it harder to amuse himself. Hence my question.

I have two other kids, close in age, one of whom loves to make stuff, whether it's baking or legos, or woodworking. The other would read for hours. But this son doesn't have a go to activity.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like my 12 yo. He gravitates towards screens and away from books. He also likes being outside

When home, he was recently into the Rubik's Cube and all sorts of variants, trying to figure out the most efficient way he could solve them. He also likes to practice instruments and work on puzzles in Games magazine.

[Anonymous]

Books, doodling, playing her clarinet

[Anonymous]

Oh and lying in bed staring at the ceiling

[Anonymous]

“Do you have a way to shoot baskets indoor?

I'm OP, and my 12 year old's go to activities are all outside. He'll happily ride his bike for hours, play fetch with the dog, or shoot baskets, but as the weather gets colder, and it's dark early, he's finding it harder to amuse himself. Hence my question.”

NP here, but my now 13 year old DS has always turned the basement into a court for whatever sport he’s passionate about at the moment. We have lots is strsss balls, plastic bats, whiffle balls, and toddler foam soccer balls, but yes, many things have been broken along the way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Read, play instrument, cook/bake, shoot baskets, play with the dog, etc.

Do you have a way to shoot baskets indoor?

I'm OP, and my 12 year old's go to activities are all outside. He'll happily ride his bike for hours, play fetch with the dog, or shoot baskets, but as the weather gets colder, and it's dark early, he's finding it harder to amuse himself. Hence my question.

I have two other kids, close in age, one of whom loves to make stuff, whether it's baking or legos, or woodworking. The other would read for hours. But this son doesn't have a go to activity.

There hasn't been a single day this winter where it was too cold to play fetch with the dog or shoot baskets.